. Social Scandinavia in the Viking age. iMARKLAND so^ TOWNS AND AREAS OF SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE. SOCIAL SCANDINAVIA INTHE VIKING AGE CHAPTER I THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE The Dani and Sueones and the other peoples beyond Dania are calledby the Frankish historians Normans, whilst however the Romans sim-ilarly call them Hyperboreans, of whom Martianus Capella speaks withmuch praise. . When one has passed beyond the islands of theDanes a new world opens in Sueonia and Nordmannia, wliieh are twokingdoms of wide extent in the north, and hitherto almost unknown toour world. Of them the learned king of t
. Social Scandinavia in the Viking age. iMARKLAND so^ TOWNS AND AREAS OF SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE. SOCIAL SCANDINAVIA INTHE VIKING AGE CHAPTER I THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE The Dani and Sueones and the other peoples beyond Dania are calledby the Frankish historians Normans, whilst however the Romans sim-ilarly call them Hyperboreans, of whom Martianus Capella speaks withmuch praise. . When one has passed beyond the islands of theDanes a new world opens in Sueonia and Nordmannia, wliieh are twokingdoms of wide extent in the north, and hitherto almost unknown toour world. Of them the learned king of the Danes told me that Nord-mannia can scarcely be traversed in a month, and Sueonia not easily intwo. . On the borderland of the Sueones or Nordmanni on the northlive the Scritefini, who are said to outrun the wild beasts in their run-ning. Adam of Bremen. The people of Scandinavian stock, during the surpris-ing activity characterizing them from the close of theeighth century to tlie middle of the eleventh, _spread far beyond the limits of their early Scandinaviabase in northwestern
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