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What dates conventionally mark the start and end of the Viking Age?
The conventional start is the Viking raid on the Lindisfarne monastery on the Northumbrian coast in June 793 AD. The conventional end is the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September 1066, at which the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson defeated the Norwegian invader Harald Hardrada — three weeks before Harold himself was killed at Hastings.
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The Vikings The Vikings were the seafaring Norse people of Scandinavia who raided, traded, and settled across northern Europe, the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and parts of North America between approximately 793 and 1066 AD.
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