sack of lindisfarne is the event that is commonly associated with the beginning of the viking age.
sack of lindisfarne is the event that is commonly associated with the beginning of the viking age.
what event is commonly associated with the beginning of the viking age?
sack of lindisfarne
bullet::::- ideological model: this era coincided with the medieval warm period (800–1300) and stopped with the start of the little ice age (about 1250–1850). the start of the viking age, with the sack of lindisfarne, also coincided with charlemagne's saxon wars, or christian wars with pagans in saxony. historians rudolf simek and bruno dumézil theorise that the viking attacks may have been in response to the spread of christianity among pagan peoples. professor rudolf simek believes, "it is not a coincidence if the early viking activity occurred during the reign of charlemagne". because of the penetration of christianity in scandinavia, serious conflict divided norway for almost a century.
viking age
while the investigation in 1999 did not reveal any viking age artifacts, subsequent excavations at tønnesminde have found significant evidence of a viking age settlement. the 2014 excavation unearthed spindle whorls, glass beads, loom weights, whetstones, iron rivets, and iron knives in presumably viking age pit houses. nearby postholes likely belong to other viking age buildings, although the postholes lacked dateable material. similarly, the 2015 excavation found spindle whorls, loom weights, iron rivets and nails, and whetstones from pit houses; other excavated postholes probably derive from the viking age but could not be dated due to a dearth of dateable material. the long house excavated by the 2016 team could have functioned as an 'economy house' ('økonomibygning' in danish) during the viking age. an older, nearby large cultural layer intersects the long house, and based on the discovery of half of a loom weight and the general structure of the long house, on-site archaeologists dated the long house to the late iron age or early viking age. similarly, the 2017 excavation unearthed two spindle whorls and many ceramic rim shards that are characteristic of the viking age.
tønnesminde