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Photo of the Fennoscandian Peninsula and Denmark, as well as other areas surrounding the Baltic Sea, in March 2002. Scandinavia (/ˌskændɪˈneɪviə/ SKAN-di-NAY-vee-ə) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties.
The term Norse is commonly applied to pre-Christian northern Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the so-called Viking Age. Old Norse gradually developed into the North Germanic languages, including Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Are Vikings and medieval the same?
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
What is the difference between Vikings and Scandinavian?
The Vikings were medieval Scandinavians. Being Viking was not an ethnicity but a Scandinavian way of living; Seafaring, plundering, extortion, trading and setling illiegally in other peoples countries and taking slaves. As soon as this practise stopped, the Scandinavians were no longer Vikings.
Around 1050, Scandinavia started to join Christian Europe, since it was simply the Cool Thing to Be. At the same time, feudalism and fortifications made the old Viking trade-and-raid lifestyle impossible.
How did the Viking Age end in Sweden?
The end of the Viking Age in Sweden is generally taken to be the Viking expedition of Ingvar Vittfarne (“Ingvar the widely travelled”), who visited places as far away as present-day Azerbaijan and died somewhere on the shores of the Black Sea, possibly from malaria.
What countries make up the Scandinavian Peninsula?
Geographically speaking, the Scandinavian peninsula is the area shared by Norway, Sweden, and part of northern Finland. In this view, the Scandinavian countries would, therefore, focus only on Norway and Sweden. Linguistically, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish have a common word called “Skandinavien”.