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The Vikings were a group of Norse peoples that came from the lands that are now parts of modern day Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. They were both skilled mariners and warriors. They spoke various dialects of what we now call the Old Norse language, a Teutonic language (Old Germanic dialects including the Anglo-Saxon dialect that became Old English are also Teutonic languages). They had a pre-Christian religion at a time when most of the rest of Europe was Catholic.

They invaded Europe to plunder and conquer. They often picked Catholic monasteries as targets, where the unarmed monks could not fight against them or small villages where there were no fortifications.

They also settled in large parts of England (e.g. Northumbria) and northwestern France (hence the region called 'Normandy') and conquered and ruled Sicily for centuries.

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