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In the mid-ninth century a series of Viking voyages came across Iceland and in the year 872 colonists led by Ingólf Arnarson settled on the island. They established a unique society, fiercely independent and owing no formal allegiance to the kings of Norway. It was a republic whose supreme governing body was, from 930, the Althing, an assembly made up of Iceland’s chief men which met each summer in a plain beside a massive cleft in a ring of hills in the centre of the island. It has a strong claim to be the world’s oldest parliament. #vikings #viking #vikinghistory #norse #vikingculture #vikinglife #magicrebel #magicrebelshop #valhalla #asgard #vikingwarrior https://www.instagram.com/p/B7N0ekRnXeK/?igshid=rnfewivg3d24

The Vikings' seaworthiness and impulsiveness led to the development of new areas along the Norwegian coast, westward to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland, Orkney, Scotland, Ireland and Greenland. The Norwegian Vikings also discovered Vinland, present-day America, long before Columbus. #viking #vikings #vikingstyle #vikingshistory #vikinghistory #drakar #asgard #history #magicrebelshop #magicrebel https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bZcJNHiHW/?igshid=1ufajtqbvj2sn

The Vikings had a close relationship with fire. They believed their world, and everything that was in it would end in Ragnarok: The age of fire and gravel. Their enemies had the honor of suffering the same fate, while the Norsemen believed the flames protected them against revenge of evil powers. #vikingculture #pagan #norsepagan #pagan #fire #vikingfiresuits #vikinghistory #vikings #viking #magicrebel #magicrebelshop https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs-Ix38BnMg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jcchf3xm519x

Vikings didn't write down their history (except for the occasional runestone inscription) until they had converted to Christianity. Any history prior to that was passed on through an oral tradition carried on by skalds. Skalds were Scandinavian bards who recited epic poems (called sagas) recounting the deeds of famous Viking kings and lords. These poems could be incredibly long and detailed. Some of the sagas were eventually written down in later eras, but most of them are lost to history. #viking #vikings #vikingculture #history #vikinghistory #sagas #skandinavia #norse #norsehistory #norsesaga #saga #magicrebelshop #magicrebel https://www.instagram.com/p/BsfvVsGnmbE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i3qhfps4v80k

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The Vikings were made up of landowning chieftains and clan heads, their retainers, freemen, and any energetic young clan members who sought adventure and booty overseas. At home these Scandinavians were independent farmers, but at sea they were raiders and pillagers. During the Viking period the Scandinavian countries seem to have possessed a practically inexhaustible surplus of manpower, and leaders of ability, who could organize groups of warriors into conquering bands and armies, were seldom lacking. These bands would negotiate the seas in their longships and mount hit-and-run raids at cities and towns along the coasts of Europe #vikings #viking #vikinghistory #history #magicrebel #magicrebelshop #norse #pagani #pagan #norsemythology https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZwRwmH7Ub/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1srcfs88wgpw8