Vikings

thumb|Depiction of Vikings sailing a longship from thumb|A Viking Age depiction from the [[Tjängvide image stone, on Gotland]]

the period of European history characterised by Viking raids and trading

In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers () were Scandinavian warriors who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English adjective berserk . Berserkers are attested to in numerous Old Norse sources.

A housecarl (; ) was a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe.

Icelandic saga

exploration, settlement, and raids performed by Norse population

thumb|The island of Ösel Oeselians or Osilians is a historical name for the people who prior to the Northern Crusades in the 13th century lived in the Estonian island of Saaremaa (Ösel) – the Baltic Sea island was also referred as Oeselia or Osilia in written records dating from around that time. In Viking Age literature, the inhabitants were often included under the name "Vikings from Estonia", as written by Saxo Grammaticus in the late 12th century. The earliest known use of the word in the (Latinised) form of "Oeselians" in writing was by Henry of Livonia in the 13th century. The inhabitant

aspect of history

Icelandic saga

mass grave