On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:40 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When the Vikings reigned supreme the western world was pretty much in > disarray. The Europeans who took the hardest blows from Vikings were the > Merovingian Franks of 500 to 700 CE. The Franks were not at any high point > of great culture or civilization either. The Vikings established one long > lasting kingdom in Normandy, which had a future big impact on Britain. The > Vikings were a pretty rough group, and if you were a Frank living in a > village that got taken by the Vikings, chances you would not live to see > the next day. The Vikings also put an end to a fledgling literary > renaissance in Ireland. > And yet the Vikings were responsible for one of the great flowerings of medieval literature and culture in the Icelandic Sagas, which are as much about the history of the Vikings (they were a brutal lot!) as of the settlement of Iceland/Greenland/North America. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRsi1z_Oebwcq6tEN%3DUeBAuEnYP3j9qAYax6CgFpuWc6g%40mail.gmail.com.
