Ancient Scandinavian

The early history of norway and scandinavia in general is characterized by powerful seafarers traders and warriors and by rich heathen mythologies and ambitious chieftains.
Ancient scandinavian. Viking history traditionally begins in northern europe with the first scandinavian raid on england in ad 793 and ends with the death of harald hardrada in 1066 in a failed attempt to attain the english throne. The history of scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of scandinavia and its peoples. The region is in northern europe and consists of denmark norway and sweden.
Norse mythology refers to the scandinavian mythological framework that was upheld during and around the time of the viking age c. Now we have sequenced the genomes of seven hunter gatherers dated to be 9 500 6 000 years old to find out. The only general assembly was the allthing of iceland established 930 the oldest continuous parliamentary body in existence.
During those 250 years the political and religious structure of northern europe was changed irrevocably. One of the reasons the origins of the first scandinavians is so enigmatic is a major.