Arghh, Grammarly! I did not see that it had changed both of those instances to the wrong one. Thank you for catching that, changes have been made.
Estimate for Germany--I will have to give that some thought. It's a complex question because of the closeness of the Saxons to the Danes at the time. For example, the leader of the Saxon rebellion against Charlemagne that ended at the massacre of Verdun, a man named Widukind, was the brother-in-law to the king of Jutland at the time. So we know the relationship between the two areas even before the Viking Age was close. However, as far as Vikings are concerned, there was very little roving activity that we know of within what is now modern Germany and even Poland.
Check out this podcast Terri and I did on Poland, and I think it's relevant to the Germany questions because the Viking activity in those regions was similar: https://vikingology.substack.com/p/slavic-vikings
The key takeaway from that podcast was when I asked Dr. Gardela how the Vikings changed Poland, and he replied dryly, "They didn't."
I hope this answer was helpful. I will keep this question in mind and update the article with a Germany section once I've done a little digging and evaluating.
Very interesting Article, easy to read and understand. I'm also interested in Germany and want to point out that in a kind of post scriptum it could be worth to mention that any conquests which happened AFTER the viking age - espiecially ba the british or even dutch - spread viking genes all over the world.
an interesting article, and I'd like to know your estimate for germany.
but I just have to say it: it's RITE of passage, not right...
Arghh, Grammarly! I did not see that it had changed both of those instances to the wrong one. Thank you for catching that, changes have been made.
Estimate for Germany--I will have to give that some thought. It's a complex question because of the closeness of the Saxons to the Danes at the time. For example, the leader of the Saxon rebellion against Charlemagne that ended at the massacre of Verdun, a man named Widukind, was the brother-in-law to the king of Jutland at the time. So we know the relationship between the two areas even before the Viking Age was close. However, as far as Vikings are concerned, there was very little roving activity that we know of within what is now modern Germany and even Poland.
Check out this podcast Terri and I did on Poland, and I think it's relevant to the Germany questions because the Viking activity in those regions was similar: https://vikingology.substack.com/p/slavic-vikings
The key takeaway from that podcast was when I asked Dr. Gardela how the Vikings changed Poland, and he replied dryly, "They didn't."
I hope this answer was helpful. I will keep this question in mind and update the article with a Germany section once I've done a little digging and evaluating.
Thank for reading!
Very interesting Article, easy to read and understand. I'm also interested in Germany and want to point out that in a kind of post scriptum it could be worth to mention that any conquests which happened AFTER the viking age - espiecially ba the british or even dutch - spread viking genes all over the world.
Loved reading this! Thank you for sharing this information, C.J.! ☀️