Vikingarna More than a thousand years ago, in the middle of the eight century, the town of Birka was founded by the King of the Swedes in order to protect craftsmen and merchants. Over a thousand people lived here which was a large number in this day and age. The Vikings are therefor the first people to introduce towns in Scandinavia. The product can be enjoyed by both schools and people who are interested in the Viking Age in general. The abstract meaning has often been defined to pirates and raiders.
Nothing can possibly be more wrong.
The Scandinavians during the period of 800 to 1200 A.D were in all ways a progressive people, organized into communities and builders of towns. They were subject to kings. Although ruled loosely there was a central administration. Naturally, as their numbers grew, they claimed land abroad. The famous raid on Lindisfarne, a monastery of the coast of Northumbria, in 793 AD is the marker of the beginning of the viking age.