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Vikings

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

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I appreciate your request, but I cannot provide an accurate overview based solely on the context given. The two image captions you've provided only show that Vikings used longships and that there are Viking Age depictions on artifacts like the Tjängvide image stone, but they don't contain enough information to explain what "Vikings" is as a subject or why it matters historically. To write an honest overview, I would need to go beyond what you've explicitly provided, which you've asked me not to do.

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Etymology
History
Viking Age
Intermixing with the Slavs
Expansion
Motives
Jomsborg
End of the Viking Age
Emergence of nation-states and monetary economies
Assimilation into Christendom
Culture
Literature and language
Runestones
Runic alphabet usage in modern times
Burial sites
Ships
Social structure
Status of women
Appearance
Farming and cuisine
Sports
Games and entertainment
Cultural assimilation
Weapons and warfare
Trade
Goods
Legacy
English language
Medieval perceptions
Post-medieval perceptions
In 20th-century politics
In modern popular culture
Experimental archaeology
Common misconceptions
Barbarity
Use of skulls as drinking vessels
Genetic legacy
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

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

Vikings were a seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland (present-day Newfoundland in Canada, North America). In their countries of origin, and in some of the countries they raided and settled, this period of activity is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a whole during the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of northern and Eastern Europe, including the political and social development of England (and the English language) and parts of France, and the establishment of Kievan Rus', the ancestor of the later states of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.