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 .p007 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide | Storegga Slide ]] 6225-6170 BCE
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland | Doggerland ]] land area/bridge between Scandinavia, England, France before 5000 BCE, Rhine and Thames into the same estuary
 .p007 Move to farms inland around 4000 BCE, Vikings were mostly farmers
 .p007 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people | Sami ]] moved north, nomads herding reindeer, neolithic to present
 .p008 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze | bronze ]] in Scandinavia after 1700 BCE
 .p009 vik is Norse for bay or creek
 .p009 more than [[ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tjelvars-grave | Gotland graves shaped like ship ]]
 .p010 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri | Cimbri ]] moved south towards Roman lands
 .p011 Scandinavian [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths | Goths ]] migrated south along Vistula River Germany
 .p012 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauls | Gauls ]]
 .p012 vir (man) -> virtus (virtue)
 .p013 Tacitus: Germans revered women, advice
 .p013 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_War_(248%E2%80%93253) | Gothic War of 248–253 ]]
 .p014 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople | Battle of Adrianople ]] 378 AD August
 .p014 Constantinople survived but western Roman Empire was conquered by 480 AD
 .p014 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks | Franks ]] seize northern [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul | Gaul, ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths | Visigoths ]] seize southern Gaul and Spain, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain | Saxons and Angles ]] seize Britain

The Viking Heart

How Scandinavians conquered the world

2021 . Arthur Herman . 29 + 484 pages

948.022 HER . Murray Scholls Library


  • MAP: Viking voyages, originating in
    • southwest coastal Norway to Iceland, England, Ireland, France
    • Denmark to Germany, England, France, Spain, Italy
    • East coast Sweden to south Finland, Volga to Caspian Sea, Dnieper to Kiev, Black Sea, Constantinople
  • pxi Preface

  • pxv Norsemen genetic melting pot widespread in Europe
  • pxv Normans descendants of Norsemen, brought science and instruments to northern and western Europe

  • pxvii A Nation of Immigrants John F. Kennedy 1958 book @PSU

  • p001 Ch02 - The Wrath of the Norsemen

  • p003 Swedish raiders up the Volga, settlement at Novgorod

  • p005 Only 3% of Norway is arable land, 25% forest, 70% bare mountain ranges
  • p005 inland Sweden lakes and forests almost impassable before modern times
  • p006 southern Denmark/Jutland infertile barrier southwards
  • p007 Storegga Slide 6225-6170 BCE

    • Doggerland land area/bridge between Scandinavia, England, France before 5000 BCE, Rhine and Thames into the same estuary

  • p007 Move to farms inland around 4000 BCE, Vikings were mostly farmers
  • p007 Sami moved north, nomads herding reindeer, neolithic to present

  • p008 bronze in Scandinavia after 1700 BCE

  • p009 vik is Norse for bay or creek
  • p009 more than Gotland graves shaped like ship

  • p010 Cimbri moved south towards Roman lands

  • p011 Scandinavian Goths migrated south along Vistula River Germany

  • p012 Gauls

  • p012 vir (man) -> virtus (virtue)

  • p013 Tacitus: Germans revered women, advice
  • p013 Gothic War of 248–253

  • p014 Battle of Adrianople 378 AD August

  • p014 Constantinople survived but western Roman Empire was conquered by 480 AD
  • p014 Franks seize northern Gaul, Visigoths seize southern Gaul and Spain, Saxons and Angles seize Britain

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  • p192 Ch08 - Viking Heart Empire: King Gustavus Adolphus and the Scandinavian Century

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  • p240 Ch10 - "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Scandinavians in the American Civil War

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  • p263 Ch11 - "More Wonderful than Riches": American Fever and the Great Migration

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  • p295 Ch12 - Land of Wonders: How Two Scandinavian Icons Transformed Jazz Age America

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  • p348 Ch14 - The Viking Heart Come Home

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