know anything about the viking age?? and their language and religion which was Norse??

Answer 1

WELL BEFORE THE "VIKING" AND SAGA AGES THERE WERE PROBABLY HUNDREDS OF TALES THE NORSE HAD WRITTEN IN BLOOD; BUT NOT IN LETTERS!!VARANGIAN GUARDS WERE USED IN THE TIMES OF THE BYZANTINE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE..CARVING RUNES IN STATUES WHEREVER THEY SERVED!!THE REAL "VIKING AGE IS CONSIDERED TO BE COMPRISED OF THE TIME BETWEEN 900 AND 1200 A.D.!THE NORMAN KNIGHTS WHO INVADED ENGLAND WERE NORSE WHO HAD BEEN GIVEN NORMANDY AS A POSSESSION IN RETURN FOR ENDING THEIR SIEZE AND POSSESSION OF PARIS UNDER ROLLO ALSO KNOWN AS ROLF THE GANGER,HE HAD TO WALK BECAUSE THE NORSEMAN'S HARDY BUT DIMINUTIVE HORSES LET HIS LONG LEGS SCRAPING THE GROUND!!WILLIAM THE CONQUERER WAS THE OFFSPRING OF THESE NORMANS!!THERE NEVER WAS A KING WHO COULD CONTROL OR TRULY DIRECT ALL OF THE DISPERATE GROUPS OF LINGUISTICAL DIFFERING TRIBES AND GROUPING SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THRE NORTHERN FIJORDS AND IN SETTLEMENTS IN ISLANDS AROUND THE BALTIC THOUGH MANY LIKE HARLD HARDADDA TRIED!!IT WAS COMPOSED OF SWEDES,DANES,SAXONS,JUTES,ANGLES AND GERMANS SOMEWHAT AKIN TO THE FRANKS AND BELGAE AND OTHER EARLIER CELTIC TRIBES AND THEY TO THE EARLIER BEAKER PEOPLE AND LAKE DWELLERS !!A FACILITY WITH WOODEN SHIPS AND THE BUILDING OF THEM MAY EVEN STEM FROM EARLY CONTACS WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES!!AS KEELS WERE PROBABLY NOT A FEATURE OF THE EARLIEST NORDIC MAN ROWED BOATS!!THEIR ATTACKS WERE SWIFT AND SAVAGE AND STUCK TERROR INTO THE COUNTRYSIDES OF ALL OF THEIR VICTIMS!!SOMETIMES THEY FOUGHT NAKED WITH EITHER SWORDS OR FIREBRANDS ALONE!!THE IMBIBED MUSHROOMS CALLED SOMA AND FERMENTED HONEY:" MEADE"!!BEER AND ALE WERE COPIOUSLY CONSUMED !!THEIR GODS WERE THOR"THE THUNDERER"(FOR WHOM THURSDAY IS NAMED),WOTAN"FATER GOD AND WARRIOR EXAMPLE"(FOR WHOIM WEDNESDAY IS NAMED),FREYA THE BEAUTIFUL SUNLIT GODDESS(FOR WHOM FRIDAY IS NAMED,TUIEY(FOR WHOM TUIESDAY IS NAMED)JUST TO NAME A FEW!!LOKI WAS A GOD OF MISCHIEF AND A MESSENGER SOMEWHAT LIKE THE ROMAN GOD MERCURY;YET LIKE LUCIFER IN THAT HE WAS CONSTANTLY AT WORK AGAINST HIS LORDS!!AND SOUGHT TO BRING ABOUT "GOTTERDAMMERUNG"THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS"!!YGGDRASILL WAS A COSMIC TREE OF LIFE FOR THEM!!ASGARD AND MIDGARD REPRESENTED STEPPINGSTONES OF HEAVEN ON THE WAY TO "VALHALLA" THE END ALL WHERE WARRIORS WHO HAD DIED VALIANTLY WITH SWORD IN HAND WOULD BE ETERNALLY REWARDED WITH WOMEN,UNLIMITED MEADE AND DRINK AND FOOD OF THE BEST VARIETY!!FIGHTS WOULD BE TO THE DEATH BUT THE WARRIORS WOULD ARISE AND LIVE TO FIGHT YET AGAIN FOREVER!!A RAINBOW BRIDGE LEADS TO VALHALLA FROM ASGARD BELOW!!HORNED HELMETS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIKINGS WERE QUITE RARE!!IT WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO BE CROWN WITH RAVENS' WINGS!!OFTEN A SYMBOL ON VIKING SAILS!!A RAVEN IS SAID TO HAVE PLUCKED OUT WOTAN'S EYE GIVING HIM WISDOM!!AND HE HAD ONE RAVEN TYPICAL DEPICT ON EACH OF HIS SHOULDERS!!WISDOM AND REMEMBRANCE!! FREYA THE QUEEN OF THE GODS AND SUN GODDESS WAS DRIVEN THROUGH THE SNOW ON A CHARIOTSLED DRAWN BY KITTENS!!RAGNARROK WAS THE WAR BETWEEN THE GODS CAUSED BY LOKI!!STRANGULATION WAS THE METHOD OF EXECUTION FOR CRIME AND FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE!!THE SACRED OAKS SYMBOLIZED ODIN'S POWERS AND THE ASH TREE FREYA'S MORE LYTHESOME STRENGTHS!!OAK'S SOMETIMES WERE STREWN WITH THE BODIES OF FEMALES SACRIFICED TO THE GOD FOR FERTILITY,ORACLE SOOTHSAYING OR OTHER REASONS!!MISTLETOE OF AN OAK WAS CONSIDERED SACRED!!AS A SYMBOL OF THE PRIESTS WHO LIVE ON THE STRENGTH OF WOTAN'S PEOPLE!!THE IMAGES OF WHITE CLAD ANGELS ON CHRISTMAS TREES IS MORE EXACTLY A REMINESCENCE OF ANCIENT SACRIFICES THAN A TRULY CHRISTIAN SYMBOLOGY!!AND CHRISTMAS ITSELF A WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION THAN A TRUE CHRISTAIN TIE-IN AS CHRIST WAS NOT BORN ANYWHERE NEAR DECEMBER AS A SEASON!!SAINT BONIFACE BROUGHT THESE EARLY PAGAN PEOPLE TO THE CHURCH BY MIMICING THEIR SEASONAL FESTIVITIES WHILE CHOPPING DOWN THE GREATEST OF THE SACRIFICIAL OAKS TO SHOW HOW GREAT WAS HIS GOD OVER THE POWER OF WOTAN!!SOMETHING THAT THE EARLY ROMANS COULD NEVER ACHIEVE BY DINT OF ARMS!!EVEN THE KNIGHTS WHO EXPELLED THE MOORS FROM SPAIN IN THE FOURTEEN HUNDREDS WORN ARMOR LIKE THAT OF THE NORMAN KNIGHT OF WILLIAM THE CONQUERER AND THE WINE BOATS THAT PLY THE DOURO RIVER IN THE WINE COUNTRY OF PORTUGAL HAVE MANY VIKING SHIP FEATURES IN THEIR MODERN CONSTRUCTIONS TODAY!!THE KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILLIES WAS BEGAN BY NORSE PEOPLES WHO HAD CROSSED OVER AFTER HAVING CONQUERED NORTH AFRICA UNDER A NORSE PRINCE NAMED RODRICK!!THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE STEM FROM A NORSE TRIBE CALLED THE RUS!!WHO INVADED THROUGH THE RIVERS LEADING INLAND FROM THE BALTIC!!THEY FOUND NOVGOROD,KIEV AND SETTLED TO ASSUME CONTROL OF ALL RIVERINE TRADE IN THE PRODUCTS OF THE SILK ROADS FROM ASIA CHARGING STEEP TAXES AND FEES,RANSOMS FOR SLAVES AND CAPTIVES TO THE EUROPEAN MERCHANTS AS MIDDLE MEN!!THEY WERE GREAT TRADERS AS WELL AS WARRIORS!!MANY BECAME JEWS BECAUSE THEY FOUND THE WORSHIP OF ONE GOD SO NOVEL AND "ECONOMICAL" AS IT REDUCE THE AMOUNTS OF SLAVES SACRIFICED AND A GOODS BURNED TO APPEASE THEIR MANT WOODEN TOTEMS OF THEIR ANCIENT NORSE GODS!!JADE BUDDHAS WERE FOUND AT THE SETTLEMENT AT BIRKA WHICH INDICATE A FAR REACHING AND SOPHISTICATED,. COSMOPOLITAN WORLDLINESS AND EXPOSURE!!THE TRADE FAIRS OF THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE ARE A HOLD OVER OF THE GREAT NORSE FAIRS OF EARLIER TIMES AT NOVGOROD AND KIEV AND AT THE DNIEPER AND DON RIVERS AND THEIR CITY CENTERS!!THE SAILING SAGAS CONTAIN STORIES OF LANDINGS IN AMERICA AT GREENLAND AND ELSEWHERE!!COLONIES WERE THERE FOR GENERATIONS BUT DIED AWAY,CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WERE BUILT AND LONG HOUSES SAW MANY CHILDREN BORN! WOMEN WERE FEW AND NOT AS HARDY AND MANY BLOODLINES PROBABLY CONNECTED NORSE AND INNUIT AND NATIVE INDIAN BLOODLINES AND DILUTED THE NORSE CULTURE OVER TIME!!VIKING LIKE SHIELDS WITH LEATHER TRAILERS ARE SEEN IN CLIFF PAINTING AS FAR AWAY AS NEW MEXICOAND TALES OF ANCIENT VIKING MOORING STONES IN CENTRAL NORTH AMERICAN STATES ABOUND!!THE KENSINGTON STONE MAY INDEED BE A TRUE CELEBRATORY EXPLORERS STELE TO COMMEMORATE A GROUND BREAKING "LOST VOYAGE"BY NORWIEGIANS,SWEDES AND NORSE IN ONE CREW,FIGHTING INDIANS VOYAGING INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE MISSISSIPPI DRAINAGE BASIN AND BEYOND!!LIEF ERICSSON,BJARNEY AND ERIC THE REDARE SOME OF THE RECORDED GREAT "SAGA" VOYAGERS THAT VENTURED FORTH!ACROSS THE UNKNOWN SEAS TO AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS!!THE "VINLAND MAP" WRITTEN ON PARCHMENT SKIN IS CONSIDERED ACCURATE IN IT'S TELLING OF THEIR SUCCESSES!!

Answer 2

I guess that depends..what do you want to know?

For language, their language was called Old Norse (although most people back then called it dansk tunga "danish tongue"), this language was spoken throughout Northern Europe and wherever the vikings had a strong presence such as Russia or England. It eventually evolved into different "dialects" as the speakers became more spread out, and became Old Danish, Old Swedish, Old Norwegian, Old Icelandic, and many other languages which are now extinct. Generally Norwegian and Icelandic are considered West Scandinavian whereas Danish and Swedish are considered to be East Scandinavian. However sometimes when someone says "Old Norse", such as "Old Norse sagas", they are usually referring to Old Icelandic, because that is the language most of the sagas and such were written in.

Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic all come from Old Norse, and that is why speakers of Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian can understand each other, because instead of separate languages they are more like dialects of one common language. Icelandic is completely different though, Iceland is very isolated and the council that controls the Icelandic language is very conservative about changes, therefore written modern Icelandic is very close to written Old Icelandic, so much so that Icelanders can read Old Norse (Old Icelandic) sagas from around 1000 years ago without too much difficulty (however the sounds and phonology of Old Icelandic would be much different from Modern Icelandic, but those do not matter much in the written language)

Answer 3

The Viking Age is generally dated from A.D. 791-1066.

The Norse (the people who went Viking ) were Scandinavians and modern historian usually refer to the language group of the various tribes as "Old Norse".

Their religion is sometimes refered to as Asatru (especially in modern revival), but it is doubtful they gave it a name as such. The principle gods were Odin, Thor, Freyr and Freya. A "Thor's Hammer" is an amulet often found in Norse graves and believed to have been worn for protection. They also believed very strongly in "Luck" or "Fate" - three sisters called "Norns" were said to weave the fates of all people.

Beginning in Denmark and in Ireland, the Norse gradually converted to Christianity. This is sometimes cited as on the factors in the change in culture that brought the Viking Age to a close.

Answer 4

Religion wise try looking up Asatruar and Odinism for the modern norse religions.

Answer 5

Only what I know from Thor comics, and I doubt that's very historically accurate.

Answer 6

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