The Best Vikings were NOT from Scandinavia?!

Online shop and sources below. Going over the top vikings that were either born or raised outside Scandinavia. Online shop Insta Patreon United Homesteads 00:00- Intro 03:15- Scotland 06:00- England 08:15- Ireland 08:45- Frisia 10:00- Iceland 12:00- Russia/Ukraine The Viking Age was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. Many vikings were born and raised in countries like England, Scotland, Shetland, Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland, France, Normandie, Neterlands, Frisia, Russia, Ukraine and many more. Some of the most famous vikings of the age from these places include, Harald fairhair, Rollo, William the conqueror, Jarl einarr, halfdan long leg, Thorstein the red, Jarl Thorfinn, Haakon the good, erik bloodaxe, Harald Greycloak, Sigurd Sleva, Rögnvald and Gamle, Knut the great, Swein forkbeard, Rodulf, Rorik of Dorestad, Kjartan, Egil skallagrimsson, erik the red, Leif erikssson, Freydis Eiriksdottir, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Sviatoslav, Oleg, Igor, or the earliest one Rurik, Olav tryggvasson, Olav the saint.
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