Viking Expansion Quotes

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.

The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.

If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.

There are so many good stories about the Vikings.

The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.