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Old 03-11-2010, 12:35 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Ea View Post
Nitpick: What is popularly know as "the viking age" is in fact the late iron age of Scandinavia.The end of the viking age roughly marks the beginning of the Scandinavian middle ages.

A list of Viking themed fiction:
http://vikinganswerlady.com/VikingThemedNovels.shtml

Some general historical information that might be useful:
http://vikinganswerlady.com/VALGeneralInformation.shtml
Nitpick: The original poster didn't ask about the Scandinavian middle ages, he asked about the stories set in the medieval era (i.e., the European Middle Ages) told from a viking point of view. While the Scandinavian Middle ages might have started at the end of the Viking Age, the European Middle Ages certainly includes the "Viking Age". The very latest I generally have seen as a start date for the Middle Ages is the rise of the Carolingian Empire in the 8th century, and some historians date it back into the Dark Ages immediately following the fall of the Western Empire.

Now a better question is, what does the poster mean by viking? Does he take the broader view that a viking is essentially any Scandinavian of the period, or the more narrow definition that limits the vikings only to those specific Scandinavians who went raiding.

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