At this point the Scandinavians had entered their medieval period and consolidated their kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

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.

In communist Russia, the ideology of Slavic racial purity led to the complete denial that Scandinavians had played a part in the emergence of the principalities of the Rus ', which was supposed to have been founded by Slavs.

The stone tablet may indicate that Scandinavians had come to Minnesota in the 14th century.

However, before the Scandinavians could have borrowed the term from the Germanic languages, the Germanic peoples had to have first borrowed it from the French language, which did not happen before the 16th century.

In contrast, attempts to organise a conference of anarchists in February 1919 in Copenhagen had seen only the Scandinavians able to attend.

The Chinese buffet, although found in the U. S. and other parts of Canada, had its origins in early Gastown, Vancouver, c. 1870 and came out of the practice of the many Scandinavians ' working in the woods and mills around the shantytown getting the Chinese cook to put out a steam table on a sideboard, so they could " load up " and leave room on the dining table ( presumably for " drink ").

* Chinese Smorgasbord: though found in the U. S. and other parts of Canada, this term and concept had its origins in early Gastown, Vancouver, c. 1870 and resulted from the many Scandinavians working in the woods and mills around the shantytown getting the Chinese cook to put out a steam table on a sideboard, so they could " load up " and leave room on the dining table ( presumably for " drink ").

A coincident facilitating factor of this interpretation was the circumstance that Romulus carried with himself the quality of twin and Quirinus had a correspondence in the theology of the divine twins such the Indian Asvin and the Scandinavians Vani.

With the German party in disarray, the British and Scandinavians had become more influential within the LSI.

The Catholic Scandinavians had a de facto monopoly on trading thralls because of the large pagan populations that remained in Scandinavia.

After the Roman empire had disappeared, gold became scarce and Scandinavians began to make objects of gilded bronze, with decorations of interlacing animals in Scandinavian style.

After the Roman Empire had disappeared, gold became scarce and Scandinavians began to make objects of gilded bronze, with decorations of interlacing animals in Scandinavian style.

The Younger Futhark became known in Europe as the " alphabet of the Norsemen ", and was studied in the interest of trade and diplomatic contacts, referred to as Abecedarium Nordmannicum in Frankish Fulda ( possibly by Walahfrid Strabo ) and ogam lochlannach " Ogham of the Scandinavians " in the Book of Ballymote.

There were lively contacts with Central Europe, and the Scandinavians continued to export iron, fur and slaves ; in return they acquired art and innovations, such as the stirrup.

Scandinavian arrowheads from the 8th and 9th centuries were found between the coast and the lake chains in the Mecklenburgian and Pomeranian hinterlands, pointing at periods of warfare between the Scandinavians and Slavs.

For the medieval Scandinavians, the term Wend ( Vender ) meant a Slav originating from the southern shore of the Baltic Sea ( Vendland ), the term was therefore used to refer to Polabian Slavs like Obotrites, Rugian Slavs, Veleti / Lutici and Pomeranian tribes.

This is dubious, as " no trace has been found there of its artificial harbour for 360 warships, or of a citadel, unless the nearby hill of Silberberg is accepted as the site of such ; but there were Norsemen there around the year 1000, and the archaeological finds reveal a mixed population of Scandinavians and Slavs ".

Other places of pagan cult and ritual by Slavs and Scandinavians are known from prior analysis of early inhabitation of Eastern Europe, however, these specific areas inhabited by early Polish tribes were not studied until recently.

19th century ethnic nationalist Fennomans saw East Karelia as the ancient home of Finnic culture, " un-contaminated " by both Scandinavians and Slavs.

From a distance, Polabian fleets resembled those of the Scandinavians, although targets would recognize the Slavs ' closely cropped hair and shrieking battle cries when they grew close.

If so, it can be no earlier than about 985 since there were no Scandinavians in Greenland until that time.

Inhabitants exchanged their products, presumably, mostly furs, for weapons and ornaments with the Balts and the Scandinavians as well as with the peoples along the traditional eastern trade routes.

Western historians tend to agree with the Primary Chronicle that these Scandinavians founded Kievan Rus ' in the 880s and gave their name to the land.

As an adjective, the word is used to refer to ideas, phenomena or artefacts connected with Scandinavians and their cultural life in these centuries, producing expressions like " Viking age ", " Viking culture ", " Viking art ", " Viking religion ", " Viking ship ", and so on.

Thus the end of the Viking Age for the Scandinavians also marks the start of their relatively brief Middle Ages.

The assimilation of the nascent Scandinavian kingdoms into the cultural mainstream of European Christendom altered the aspirations of Scandinavian rulers and those Scandinavians able to travel overseas, and changed their relations with their neighbours.

Eventually, the Norse army began to fragment and fracture, allowing the English troops to force their way in and break up the Scandinavians ' shield wall.

The Scandinavians eventually dispersed, and with the exception of their meetinghouse, few ethnic reminders remain in this section of Murray.

However, Woolf ( 2005 ) asserts that " contrary to the image, projected by recent clan-historians, of Clann Somhairle as Gaelic nationalists liberating the Isles from Scandinavians, it is quite explicit in our two extended narrative accounts from the thirteenth century, Orkneyinga saga and The Chronicle of the Kings of Man and the Isles, that the early leaders of Clann Somhairle saw themselves as competitors for the kingship of the Isles on the basis of their descent through their mother Ragnhilt " and that their claim " to royal status was based on its position as a segment of Uí Ímair.

Gotlanders of the Viking Era are depicted as city people, more sophisticated and cosmopolitan than other Scandinavians of their time, and proud of their knowledge and skills.

The Anglo-Saxons and the Scandinavians spoke related languages from different branches of the Germanic family ; many of their lexical roots were the same or similar, although their grammars were more divergent.

Occasionally, Scandinavians choose to use their middle name as their surname in everyday life.

Icelanders, however, unlike other Scandinavians, have continued to use their traditional name system, which was formerly used in all of Scandinavia ; it has also been re-introduced in the Faroe Islands.

Also, the-else ending characterizes a class of words that the Scandinavians borrowed from their southern neighbors.

The Scandinavians who arrived in Mann in the eighth and ninth centuries AD sometimes re-used these Iron Age promontory forts, often obliterating the old domestic quarters with their characteristic rectangular houses ; the fine example at Cronk ny Merriu has been used as the basis of the reconstruction in the House of Manannan museum in Peel.

The Scandinavians did write inscriptions in runes, but these are usually very short and formulaic.

The Norse Gaels and Scandinavians too produced works magnifying Brian, among these Njal's Saga, the Orkneyinga Saga, and the now-lost Brian's Saga.

In every hamlet where I pass the night, at every post-station where I await fresh horses, I shall scatter such information as I have found by experience to be best calculated to promote the emigration of these Scandinavians to our own land.

It is not known what language these early Scandinavians spoke.

It is not known what language these early Scandinavians spoke, but towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC, they were overrun by new tribes who many scholars think spoke Proto-Indo-European, the Battle-Axe culture.

It is not known what language these early Scandinavians spoke, but towards the end of the 3rd millennium BCE, they were overrun by new tribes who many scholars think spoke Proto-Indo-European, the Battle-Axe culture.