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793 CE – 1066 CE
The Viking Age
Norse seafarers, traders, and explorers who reached from America to Asia.
Timeline
793 CE
Raid on Lindisfarne
A raid on an English monastery opens the Viking Age.
c. 870 CE
Settlement of Iceland
Norse settlers colonise the North Atlantic.
c. 1000 CE
Vikings reach America
Leif Erikson reaches Vinland, centuries before Columbus.