The Vikings changed the political and genetic course of Europe and beyond: Cnut the Great became the King of England, Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America - 500 years before Christopher Columbus - and Olaf Tryggvason is credited with taking Christianity to Norway.
The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s, a few years before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term ‘ vikingr’ meaning ‘ pirate.’ Image credit: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland to understand the global influence of this expansion. The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history.
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