Viking Age Scandinavian settlements were set up along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, primarily for trade purposes.

The Scandinavian settlements were larger than the early Slavic ones, their craftsmen had a considerably higher productivity, and in contrast to the early Slavs, the Scandinavians were capable of seafaring.

Scandinavian settlements at the Mecklenburgian coast include Reric ( Groß Strömkendorf ) on the eastern coast of Wismar Bay, and Dierkow ( near Rostock ).

Scandinavian settlements at the Pomeranian coast include Wollin ( on the isle of Wollin ), Ralswiek ( on the isle of Rügen ), Altes Lager Menzlin ( at the lower Peene river ), and Bardy-Świelubie near modern Kolobrzeg ( Kolberg ).

Scandinavian settlements existed along the southeastern Baltic coast in Truso and Kaup ( Old Prussia ), and in Grobin ( Courland, Latvia ).

The long-term linguistic effect of the Viking settlements in England was threefold: over a thousand Old Norse words eventually became part of Standard English ; numerous places in the East and North-east of England have Danish names, and many English personal names are of Scandinavian origin.

During the 9th century, extensive Scandinavian settlements began on the east side of the Baltic Sea.

Archaeologists and historians of today believe that these Scandinavian settlements in the Slavic lands formed the names of the countries Russia and Belarus.

Scandinavian settlements in 10th century Ireland

During the 9th century, extensive Scandinavian settlements were made on the east side of the Baltic sea.

In northern Canada, Australia, and in the Scandinavian countries, remote, sparsely populated settlements were often inaccessible by road for months at a time, or even year round.

Names such as Ballifield (" Bale Enclosure ") indicate later Scandinavian settlements at the same site.

Carlingford in Ireland derived its name from Scandinavian origins, from the time of the Viking invasions and settlements.

* since 800: various Scandinavian settlements and tradeposts, including Ralswiek, Altes Lager Menzlin, and Wollin ( then " Vineta " or " Jomsborg " of the Jomsvikings ).

The settlements were located close to the contemporary seashore but, due to constant land uplift after deglaciation, they are now 60 – 70 m above present-day sea level in western Norway, while Høgnipen is as high as 150 m above present-day sea level, the difference being due to the greater crustal rebound on the Baltic side of the Scandinavian peninsula.

Scandinavian settlements and voyages

Wolves of the central and northern chains of the Rocky Mountains and coastal ranges are more formidable animals than the more southern plains wolves, and resemble Russian and Scandinavian wolves in size and proportions.

In fact, the Scandinavian influence on Pomerania and today's northern Poland from ca.

Coats of arms in Germany, the Scandinavian countries, Estonia, Latvia, Czech lands and northern Switzerland generally change very little over time.

He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe.

In northern Europe the Inquisition was somewhat more benign: in the Scandinavian countries it had hardly any impact.

* Scandinavian, a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common heritage and language

The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe, which today covers Norway, Sweden, and most of northern Finland.

) This effective identification of northern Newfoundland with the northern tip of Vinland was taken up by later Scandinavian scholars such as bishop Hans Resen.

Scandinavian predation in Christian lands around the North Sea and the Irish Sea diminished markedly. Kilmuir, Skye | Blar a ' Bhuailte, site of the Vikings ' last stand in Skye The kings of Norway continued to assert power in parts of northern Britain and Ireland, and raids continued into the 12th century, but the military ambitions of Scandinavian rulers were now directed toward new paths.

However, it used other dialect forms where they made meanings clearer ; for example, the northern " they ", " their " and " them " ( derived from Scandinavian forms ) were used rather than the London " hi / they ", " hir " and " hem.

Norway is a country located in Northern Europe on the western and northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering the North Sea in southwest and the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Atlantic Ocean ( Norwegian Sea ) in the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.

The most surprising revision is that, unlike, for example, the famous Cantino World Map, the Vinland Map depicts Greenland as an island, remarkably close to the correct shape and orientation ( while Norway, of which Greenland was just a colony, is wildly inaccurate ) although contemporary Scandinavian accounts — including the work of Claudius Clavus in the 1420s — depict Greenland as a peninsula joined to northern Russia.

" Nevertheless, plans for the future included the annexation of the Scandinavian countries, and also Alsace and Lorraine ; Belgium and northern France would follow, while Great Britain might be annexed or kept as a puppet state.

* Scandinavian Peninsula, a geographic region of northern Europe

The northern part is located within the Scandinavian mountain range.

The northern peoples, many of them of Scandinavian descent, immediately submitted to him.

Troms is located in the northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula.

The northern part of the province lies within the Scandinavian mountain range: mountainous country with many glacier-created lakes.

* The Arctic Ocean drains most of Western and Northern Canada east of the Continental Divide, northern Alaska and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana in the United States, the north shore of the Scandinavian peninsula in Europe, and much of central and northern Russia.

Additional sources include large central air conditioning systems, fountains, domestic cold water, swimming pools ( especially in Scandinavian countries and northern Ireland ) and similar disseminators that draw upon a public water supply.

The open discussions on an Allied expedition to northern Scandinavia, also without consent of the neutral Scandinavian countries, and the Altmark Incident on 16 February, alarmed the Kriegsmarine and Germany by threatening iron ore supplies and gave strong arguments for a German securing of the Norwegian coast.

The old Scandinavian sagas, perhaps dating back to the times of the Angles and Jutes give the impression that Jutland has been divided into a northern and a southern part with the border running along the Kongeå River.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

Livonia (,,, German and Scandinavian languages: Livland, Latvian and,, archaic English Livland ,, Liwlandia ; Лифляндия / Liflyandiya ) is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

The resurgence of centralized authority throughout Europe limited opportunities for traditional raiding expeditions in the West, whilst the Christianization of the Scandinavian kingdoms themselves encouraged them to direct their attacks against the still predominantly pagan regions of the eastern Baltic.

The effect of circumstances on manorial economy is complex and at times contradictory: upland conditions tended to preserve peasant freedoms ( livestock husbandry in particular being less labour-intensive and therefore less demanding of villein services ); on the other hand, some upland areas of Europe showed some of the most oppressive manorial conditions, while lowland eastern England is credited with an exceptionally large free peasantry, in part a legacy of Scandinavian settlement.

Primarily they were Vikings of Scandinavian origin, who ventured along the waterways extending from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas.

# A Finnish historian, Matti Klinge, has speculated that the words " Wends " or " Vandals " used in Scandinavian sources occasionally meant all peoples of the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea from Pomerania to Finland, including some Finnic peoples.

As the biggest building project in Scandinavian history the government plans to renovate Bjørvika and eastern Oslo.

The division between Insular Scandinavian ( önordiska / ønordisk / øynordisk ) and Continental Scandinavian ( Skandinavisk ) is based on mutual intelligibility between the two groups and developed due to different influences, particularly the political union of Denmark and Norway ( 1536 – 1814 ) which lead to significant Danish influence on central and eastern Norwegian dialects ( Bokmål or Dano-Norwegian ).

They are mostly resident, only the northernmost birds such as the eastern Scandinavian and Siberian population migrating south in winter.

In 13th century, the official Swedish / Scandinavian term for the modern-day Southern Finland was " Eastern Land ", Österland, i. e. the eastern half of Sweden at the tme.

These cabins are mass manufactured, traditionally in Scandinavian countries and increasingly in eastern Europe.

Strongman competitions have grown in popularity in recent years, due in part to the introduction in 2001 of the Strongman Super Series, an equivalent to the international " tour " in other individual sports, and to the influx of new competitors from eastern Europe who have broken the Scandinavian dominance of the sport in the 1990s.

Petri was a mysterious person who loved the eastern culture, philosophy, Scandinavian mythologies and most of all, playing guitar.

A 10th century Arab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan produced a description of a funeral of a Scandinavian, probably Swedish, chieftain who was on an expedition on the eastern route.

Jomsvikings are also reported to have raided eastern England in 1009, and made forays into various Scandinavian territories during the early 11th century.

The Caledonian orogeny is a mountain building era ( orogeny ) recorded in the northern parts of the British Isles, the Scandinavian Mountains, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe.