The Vikings
The Vikings
The Viking World
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Viking Raids
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The Vikings in the East
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Place Names
Regions where Vikings settled can be recognised by the place names: for example, names ending in -by (village), -thorpe (farm), -keld (a well), and -thwaite (a piece of land). Most place names in the Shetland and Orkney islands off Scotland come from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings.
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