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GCSE History · key term
People from Scandinavia and their overseas communities who shared related languages and cultural traditions during the Viking Age.
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Paper 3
Revise: Settlement across the AtlanticIceland’s settlement is traditionally dated to about AD 874. It had no established farming population, although a few religious hermits may have been present before Norse settlement. Landnám meant claiming land and turning it into farms and households, not conquering an existing agricultural society.
Use sagas cautiously: they were written down long after the voyages. Archaeology provides independent evidence of Norse settlement.
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