SETTLEMENT ABROAD

ON THE lookout for new places to call home, the Vikings travelled overseas in order to establish new colonies, often to the displeasure of the existing inhabitants which often led to conflict. THE NORSE did not go abroad only to raid or trade as Vikings, they also settled and founded Norse colonies in various parts of the Viking world. Some of the areas they settled were relatively uninhabited, like Iceland, while others required a lot of contact with the existing population, resulting in a certain amount of assimilation, such as in England. THE NORTH ATLANTIC: THE FAROE ISLANDS, ICELAND AND GREENLAND In the early to mid-ninth century, the Vikings reached the Faroe Islands in the Atlantic. The islands had much to offer: good pastures, enough land to grow crops, and a large population…

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