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'''Vikings''' ([[Dens leid|Dens]] an {{lang-nb|vikinger}}; [[Swadish leid|Swadish]] an {{lang-nn|vikingar}}; {{lang-is|víkingar}}), frae [[Auld Norse]] ''{{lang|non|víkingr}}'', war [[Northren Europe|Nordic]] seafarers, mainly speakin the [[Auld Norse leid]], wha [[raid (militar)|raid]]it an [[trade|tradit]] frae thair [[Northren Europe|Northren European]] hamelands atort wide auries o northren, central an eastren Europe, during the late 8t tae late 11t centuries.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628781/Viking Viking (people)], Encyclopædia Britannica.</ref><ref name="Roesdahl, pp. 9–22">Roesdahl, pp. 9–22.</ref> The term is an aa commonly extendit in modren Scots an other [[vernacular]]s tae the indwallers o Viking hame commonties during whit haes acome kent as the [[Viking Age]]. This period o Nordic militar, mercantile an demografic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval [[history o Scandinavie]], [[Estonie]], the [[History o the Breetish Isles|Breetish Isles]], [[Fraunce in the Middle Ages|France]], [[Kievan Rus']] an [[Kinrick o Sicily|Sicily]].<ref>Brink 2008</ref>

Facilitatit bi advanced seafarin skills, an chairacterised bi the [[langship]], Viking activities at times an aa extendit intae the [[Mediterranean]] littoral, [[North Africae]], the [[Middle East]] an [[Central Asie]]. Follaein extendit phases o (primarily sea- or river-borne) sploration, expansion an settlement, Viking (Norse) commonties an polities war established in diverse auries o north-wastren Europe, European [[Roushie]], the North Atlantic islands an as far as the north-eastren coast o [[North Americae]]. This period o expansion witnessed the wider dissemination o Norse cultur, while simultaneously introducin strang foreign cultural influences intae Scandinavie itsel, wi profoond developmental implications in baith directions.

Popular, modren conceptions o the Vikings—the term frequently applied casually tae thair modren stryndants an the indwallers o modren Scandinavie—eften strangly differ frae the complex pictur that emerges frae [[airchaeology]] an historical soorces. A romanticised pictur o Vikings as [[noble savage]]s began tae emerge in the 18t century; this developed an acame widely propagatit during the 19t-century [[Viking revival]].<ref>Wawn 2000</ref><ref name="langer">Johnni Langer, "The origins of the imaginary viking", ''Viking Heritage Magazine,'' Gotland University/Centre for Baltic Studies. Visby (Sweden), n. 4, 2002.</ref> Perceived views o the Vikings as alternatively violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers awe much tae conflictin varieties o the modren Viking meeth that haed taken shape bi the early 20t century. Current popular representations o the Vikings are teepically based on cultural clichés an stereotypes, complicatin modren appreciation o the Viking legacy.

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