The memory of the old stories and
new types of memory of social integration appearing during the 6th and 7th
centuries among Vikings..
Myth and Vikings.
by Henryk Szubinski.
MEMORIES Written in peoples and their lands as the data used by Vikings to
search for their lost friends on Voyages to other places far away and where
return voyages to find them used the methods described in this theory of
archaeological memory of the land as "GEOMANTIC Memory" or as the
usage of FIGURATIVE CHARACTER MAPPING of their images and records
left behind.
from Wikipedia
date , 31,07,2016
time, 20:17
Vikings (Norwegian and Danish: Vikinger; Swedish and Nynorsk: Vikingar; Icelandic: Víkingar), from Old Norse víkingr, were Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raidedand traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.[1][2] The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Norse military, mercantile and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, Ireland, France, Kievan Rus' and Sicily.[3]
Facilitated by advanced seafaring skills, and characterised by the longship, Viking activities at times also extended into the Mediterranean littoral, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Following extended phases of (primarily sea- or river-borne) exploration, expansion and settlement, Viking (Norse) communities and polities were established in diverse areas of north-western Europe, European Russia, the North Atlantic islands and as far as the north-eastern coast of North America. This period of expansion witnessed the wider dissemination of Norse culture, while simultaneously introducing strong foreign cultural influences into Scandinavia itself, with profound developmental implications in both directions.
Popular, modern conceptions of the Vikings—the term frequently applied casually to their modern descendants and the inhabitants of modern Scandinavia—often strongly differ from the complex picture that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. A romanticized picture of Vikings as noble savages began to emerge in the 18th century; this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival.[4][5] Perceived views of the Vikings as alternatively violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers owe much to conflicting varieties of the modern Viking myth that had taken shape by the early 20th century. Current popular representations of the Vikings are typically based on cultural clichés and stereotypes, complicating modern appreciation of the Viking legacy.
Image of Scandinavia.
Example of a lost Viking profile as placed on the map for the search and the conflicts that developed giving knowledge to each other of each others strengths and weakness.
Whole zones of the missing persons profile would be drawn on the map and then thousands would sometimes search while making friends but also enemies and many wars broke out along the way. But most were probably found and returned home.