How to Survive a Viking Raid

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Viking berserkers rush into a town and villagers scatter. Many are cut down with axes, spears, and arrows. From Lindisfarne to Seville, these lightning raids are unpredictable, brutal, and strategically aimed at vulnerable targets. For many coastal regions, Vikings raids bring an inevitable massacre. Today, we look at how best to survive a Viking raid.
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SOURCES

Brink, Stefan, and Neil Price, editors. The Viking World. Routledge, 2008.

Lawler, Andrew. “Kinder, Gentler Vikings? Not According to Their Slaves.” National Geographic, 28 Dec. 2015, www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/12/151228-vikings-slaves-thralls-norse-scandinavia-archaeology/.

Ogg, Frederic Austin. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasion to the Renaissance. American Book Company, 1907.

Stefansson, Jon. “The Vikings in Spain from Arabic (Moorish) and Spanish Sources.” Saga Book of the Viking Club for Northern Research, vol. 6, 1909, pp. 31–46.

Winroth, Anders. The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe. Yale University Press, 2012.

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