Viking Timeline-(Late 8th Century A.D.- Late 11th Century A.

[Arminius75]

The Vikings- (Late 8th Century A.D.- Late 11th Century A.D. )
- No central king or government guides the mass of the Viking civilization.

I agree with many aspects of your info here show, not with all but are very good information, is hard to understand when really the scandinavians rulers begin to have a real political power instead of those religious, Sweden have a very long tradition but the absence of historical sources as on Danmark and Norway give us a headache when we are trying to recreate some historical aspects, the triumph os christendom over the pagans were an important issue, the new religion destroy many of the past becasue were made under pagan principles (Oral litarature) because paganism on Sweden were stronger than on Danmark or Norway (Sweden refuse the new religion till XII century perhaps remains till XIII on isolated places) ..another issue is the fact Slavs do not wrote till centuries before, there is not direct sources as on france or England, well the scandinavians have not "national" routes many danish were traveling on Russia and many Swedes were traveling to England with other scandinavians or by themselves is hard to say "That is the only reason or the only way" there is a lot of independent chieftains with the resources enough to made thier own raids on a different scales, the principal raids were made of course under the guide of a king, but there is a lot of raids made against other scandinavians or english etc.. about the term Viking mmm there si a polemic without end i think...ilike polemics nice job