Viking Cross (Pendant in antiqued silver)

Very serious cultists, 40 x 40 mm, two-faced design, 925 old silver finishing

The term Viking designated members of warlike, seafaring groups of the most Germanic peoples (there including Balts) of the North and Baltic Sea region in the so-called Viking Age. This article is about the people who have been referred by their contemporaries as a Viking. The event history associated with the Vikings is treated in Article Viking Age. In contemporary perception the Vikings represented only a very small part of the Scandinavian population is Here, two groups can be distinguished:. The operated a the bankside robbery temporarily and only at an early stage of life. They were young men who broke out from the native attachment to cult and clan and fame, wealth and adventure were in the distance. Later they settled down as their ancestors and operated the usual in their area economy. From them report the Sagas (Norse literature) and the rune stones. For others the shore near robbery the only purpose in life was. You encountered in the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon annals and chronicles. They soon returned not in its homeland, were not integrated into the native society, where they were attacked as criminals.