To Sum Up. In the latter years of the Viking Age, they became involved in their own myth, starting such organisations as the Jhomsvikings. They brought the seafaring ship to Europe and, by their constant depredations, spread its use far and wide. In only 250 years, they set their mark on the law and language of many countries and made many European communities see themselves in the light of a nation state for the first time. Wealth dies, kinsmen die.
Cattle die and the wheat, too.
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