It was not until the looting of the territory of the Roman Empire in the 8th century that the people of the empire began to know these northern barbarians from Scandinavia, and these trembling and fearful memories were able to fall into the writings of theologians, for Known to later generations. Before that, they were being severely cold in the north, and the Barrens had no connection with the civilized world.
The northern Germans expanded from 790 AD until the conquest of England by the descendants of the Danes in 1066 AD. This is generally called the "Viking Age", a transitional period between ancient Europe and the Middle Ages. The Vikings are well-known navigators. They established colonies in Shetland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. They lived in Newfoundland, America from time to time at the end of the 10th century. They were not only pirates, they also traded at the same time, and even settled on the coasts of Europe and on the banks of rivers. It is recorded that they fought in North Africa as mercenaries in the Eastern Roman Empire in 839 AD. Their colonies spread all over Europe, including Denmark in England, Kievan Rus, Normandy in France, and so on. It was only at the end of the Viking Age that independent countries and kings appeared in Northern Europe, and at the same time Christianity was accepted and the Middle Ages began. It wasn't until European countries were powerful and capable of resisting Viking pirates that the hegemony established by the Vikings by looting gradually began to die out.
Attila is called "God's Whip" by historians. The legendary emperor of the Hungarian Empire suddenly appeared in the middle of the 5th century. He led his short stature, broad chest, big head, small eyes, gray beard and sparse beard, and flat-nose warriors riding on horses across Europe from east to west. And those so-called barbarians, such as frightened wolves and bears, drove out of the forest, invaded the Western Roman Empire, and eventually perished. Among the Germans, it is believed that some of them moved to Scandinavia and are called North Germans. At the end of the 8th century AD, their warship made of oak trees crossed the Baltic Sea or advanced south along the Atlantic coast, once again causing an uproar in the heart of Europe.
These blonde, blue-eyed, tall and adventurous pirates were unknown in Scandinavia. In the centuries after they went from polytheism to conversion to Christianity, they also made great achievements. Today, this place, Northern Europe, has the highest evaluation index for many civilizations in the world, the anger has subsided, and the Germanic warrior culture has been integrated into Europe.
In recent years, there have been more film and television themes about Northern Europe, and it seems that everyone is beginning to miss those Vikings known as Vikings. It was my country’s first aircraft carrier called the Liaoning that accidentally contacted China. It passed from the Black Sea shipyard in Ukraine, crossed the Black Sea, entered the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea. It took more than 600 days to bypass most of the earth. To Dalian Port in northern China. In the Soviet era, this unfinished aircraft carrier was called the Varyag, which was the name given to the Vikings by the Eastern Slavs.
I hope Varyag, the Slavic title of the Viking, can inject German warrior culture into this once glorious Eastern empire. Like the Vikings before the 8th century, if they can't shine in the annals of history, they will be obscured and unknown to future generations.
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