The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
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Norse Metalworking in Britain in the Eight Hundred
After nine hundred vikings had to transform their tactics regardless of whether they wanted to or not. The various territories and chief domes that had been set up by vikings consolidated into a sort of loose confederation called the dain law. There was some degree of integration between norse and englose axons seen for instance in place names such as important roads and streets having the norse suffix gate meaning street added on to them. Many norse words were adopted into english just like slavic languages likewise in english we have egg window and knife which come from norse and knife probably reflects again the great importance of norse metalworking in britain in the d
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