History UsefulNotes / TheVikingAge

* ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', a sci-fi indie film about Vikings fighting a crash-landed alien.

** After the raids in the North-Eastern coasts on England, Vikings navigated, raided, and in some cases traded in Orkney, Channel islands, Hebrides and especially UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} until the 830s. Their longships worked for hit-and-run raids and they mostly attacked the costs of Britain and Francia. Later on they would ally with local rulers during The Heptarchy, as well as with various other Irish rulers. Unlike in Britain, however, the Vikings were unable to make any permanent headway into the Irish heartlands, so instead they built permanent settlements, primarily along the Irish eastcoast, which subsequently became UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}, Waterford, Wexford, Cork, and Limerick. The plunder from their raids, included coins, artifacts, and people who were often traded into the Mediterranean and North African slave trade. The Viking settlements in Ireland often clashed with each other as much as it did with rival kings. Eventually though, the Vikings' power in Ireland started gradually, but surely waning after 1014, especially spurred on by the Battle of Clontarf, which resulted in a decisive victory for the Irish. The process was not just a result of warfare, but also the Scandinavian settlers living in Ireland losing their interest in fighting and raiding and instead becoming increasingly cosmopolitan (for lack of a better term) and mercantile in their outlook. Slowly but surely, they started rehabilitating themselves by converting to Christianity and mingling with the local Irish population, now taking to calling themselves "Ostmen" (Men of the East), and a fusion of Norse and Gaelic culture started flourishing in the old Viking settlements, especially amongst Dublin's elite. Trade with Scandinavia, especially Norway, also flourished, contributing to the towns steadily growing in wealth, gaining them great influence and prestige which allowed them to remain somewhat independent of other Irish rulers. This would be the case until the English invasion of Ireland in 1172, which decisively removed the Norse-Irish elite in the trade cities from power, and for the next many centuries, Ireland, and especially Dublin, would instead be pulled in a more Anglo-Irish direction culturally.

** After the raids in the North-Eastern coasts on England, Vikings navigated, raided, and in some cases traded in Orkney, Channel islands, Hebrides and especially UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} until the 830s. Their longships worked for hit-and-run raids and they mostly attacked the costs of Britain and Francia. Later on they would ally with local rulers during The Heptarchy, as well as with various other Irish rulers. Unlike in Britain, however, the Vikings were unable to make any permanent headway into the Irish heartlands, so instead they built permanent settlements, primarily along the Irish eastcoast, which subsequently became UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}, Waterford, Wexford, Cork, and Limerick. The plunder from their raids, included coins, artifacts, and people who were often traded into the Mediterranean and North African slave trade. The Viking settlements in Ireland often clashed with each other as much as it did with rival kings. Eventually though, the Vikings' power in Ireland started gradually, but surely waning after 1014, especially spurred on by the Battle of Clontarf, which resulted in a decisive victory for the Irish. The process was not just a result of warfare, but also the Scandinavian settlers living in Ireland losing their interest in fighting and raiding and instead becoming increasingly cosmopolitan (for lack of a better term) and mercantile in their outlook. Slowly but surely, they started rehabilitating themselves by converting to Christianity and mingling with the local Irish population, now taking to calling themselves "Ostmen" (Men of the East), and a fusion of Norse and Gaelic culture started flourishing in the old Viking settlements, especially amongst Dublin's elite. Trade with Scandinavia, especially Norway, also flourished, contributing to the towns steadily growing in wealth, gaining them influence and prestige, which allowed them to remain somewhat independent of other Irish rulers. This would be the case until the English invasion of Ireland in 1172, which decisively removed the Norse-Irish elite in the trade cities from power, and for the next many centuries, Ireland, and especially Dublin, would instead be pulled in a more Anglo-Irish direction culturally.

** After the raids in the North-Eastern coasts on England, Vikings navigated, raided, and in some cases traded in Orkney, Channel islands, Hebrides and especially UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} until the 830s. Their longships worked for hit-and-run raids and they mostly attacked the costs of Britain and Francia. Later on they would ally with local rulers during The Heptarchy, as well as with various other Irish rulers. Unlike in Britain, however, the Vikings were unable to make any permanent headway into the Irish heartlands, so instead they built permanent settlements, primarily along the Irish eastcoast, which subsequently became UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}, Waterford, Wexford, Cork, and Limerick. The plunder from their raids, included coins, artifacts, and people who were often traded into the Mediterranean and North African slave trade. The Viking settlements in Ireland often clashed with each other as much as it did with rival kings. Eventually though, the Vikings' power in Ireland started gradually, but surely waning after 1014, especially spurred on by the Battle of Clontarf, which resulted in a decisive victory for the Irish. The process was not just a result of warfare, but also the Scandinavians settlers living in Ireland losing their interest in fighting and raiding and instead becoming increasingly cosmopolitan (for lack of a better term) in their outlook. Slowly but surely, they started rehabilitating themselves by converting to Christianity and mingling with the local population, now taking to calling themselves "Ostmen" (Men of the East), and a fusion of Norse and Gaelic culture started flourishing in the old Viking settlements, especially amongst Dublin's elite. Trade with Scandinavia, especially Norway, also flourished, contributing to the towns steadily growing in influence and prestige, which allowed them to remain somewhat independent of other Irish rulers. This would be the case until the English invasion of Ireland in 1172, which decisively removed the Norse-Irish elite in the cities from power, and for the next many centuries, Ireland, and especially Dublin, would instead be pulled in a more Anglo-Irish direction culturally.

The Viking Age stretches from the 8th Century to the mid-11th Century. It's an era of history that belongs to the so-called DarkAges and TheLowMiddleAges, taking place after the fall of [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire The Western Roman Empire]] and the formation of UsefulNotes/MoorishSpain, and ending just before UsefulNotes/TheCrusades properly began.

* ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior''

* ''Film/Pathfinder2007'', an [[ForeignRemake foreign remake]] of ''Film/Pathfinder1987'' that [[SettingUpdate changes the premise]] to a Native American tribe attacked by Vikings.

* ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', a heavily fictionalized tale about the historical Arab Muslim traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan accompanying a group of Varangians.