- 23 Oct 2016 09:16
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This has always puzzled me, and I believe we have no indication historically why this is the case.
During the entire time when Rome ruled Western Europe & the British Isles, what the heck were the Norse doing in Scandinavia besides living peacefully and farming? We know what the Germans were doing (living in Germania, trading and warring with the Romans & Gauls across the Rhine). But there is scant history/sources about what is happening in actual Scandinavia beyond Myths.
Then, the Norse come into focus only during the Viking age, long after Rome has fallen and into the early middle ages.
My question is why did the Norse decide to come out of Scandinavia only in 800 AD and not before, when Western Europe was clearly a more pleasant land (which the Germans eventually migrated into)?
Do you think that the weather was basically much more pleasant back then in Scandinavia?
During the entire time when Rome ruled Western Europe & the British Isles, what the heck were the Norse doing in Scandinavia besides living peacefully and farming? We know what the Germans were doing (living in Germania, trading and warring with the Romans & Gauls across the Rhine). But there is scant history/sources about what is happening in actual Scandinavia beyond Myths.
Then, the Norse come into focus only during the Viking age, long after Rome has fallen and into the early middle ages.
My question is why did the Norse decide to come out of Scandinavia only in 800 AD and not before, when Western Europe was clearly a more pleasant land (which the Germans eventually migrated into)?
Do you think that the weather was basically much more pleasant back then in Scandinavia?