What did the vikings do when they invaded?

Answer 1

the vikings were evil people who killed any one in there path carried weapons and ruled most of england The Vikings were the most advanced people in Medieval Europe, and the only ones to bathe despite modern lies told about them. Although they raised hell in England and other places, they were more than just Hell's Angels in boats. They were excellent sailors and navigators. They colonized Iceland and Normandy, and they they visited Greenland and North America (three centuries before Columbus) more briefly. True, they shook down England until they were kicked out by Alfred the Great, and with rape they bestowed upon Ireland the gift of red hair which is now incorrectly thought of as an Irish feature, but most Vikings made their living through peaceable activity like farming and trading. Still, their hellraising is best remembered. A list of Viking achievements might be too long, but four of our seven days are named after Viking deities. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are named after the gods Tyr, Wotan, and Thor, and Friday is named after the goddess Freya. It is even speculated that a Viking may have appeared to the Aztecs as the god Quetzelcoatl; a white man with hair growing from his face, arriving in a boat made of intertwined snakes (a Viking ship with serpentine decoration?). When the Spanish Hernando Cortez arrived to conquer Mexico in the 1500's, it was assumed that he was Quetzelcoatl returned. This belief may have been all that kept Cortez and his small army from being wiped out after they landed.

Answer 2

Mostly they killed villagers. But they also stole everything they could get their hands on.

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Vikings were after valuable stuff they could take away and trade or sell -- mainly silver and slaves. They did "kill villagers," but only incidentally to making off with the goodies. There were at least two good reasons for this. First, most villagers had nothing of value to take except themselves. Why bother hacking someone to pieces when you can sell him into slavery? Duh! Second, in the viking value system, Odin, the other Norse gods and the fallen warriors vikings believed had gone on to Valhalla before them did not deem the slaughter of unarmed villagers to be heroic or honorable; a viking died honorably in battle -- thus assuring his place in Valhalla - against an armed, worthy foe. The whole point of going "i viking" was to enrich oneself, but it's unlikely that an individual viking was able to charter a boat back to Scandinavia just to carry his personal stash of booty. More likely men on a particular boat were vassals to the leader on the boat or in the fleet [as there were usually multiple ships in a given raid], so a viking probably pocketed what he could and contributed the rest to a pile in the boat's hold which, later, would be distributed back to each man by the leader. Your take depended upon your contribution to the enterprise, both in booty and in deeds done to get it. A viking hoped to be rewarded back home with land and greater social standing as well as movable goods, each of which tended to increase the others. His place in the social hierarchy depended upon his bragging rights, which depended in turn upon confirmation of his deeds by fellow vikings who could bear witness to his bravery -- or to his cowardice. Then, as now, even as they drank themselves into a stupor, people were undoubtedly pretty good at spotting the liars among them.

Answer 3

a Jewish comander

Answer 4

Lead