The Vikings were not only fearless warriors, but fearless navigators as well. Their influence spread through Europe, nearly conquered England and stretched through Russia down to Constantinople where a detachment of Nordics was the palace “Varangian Guard” of the Byzantine Emperor. An Italian classics professor, Dr. Felice Vinci, has written a well researched book finding evidence that the Baltic Vikings were also the players in the Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, later driven to the Mediterranean by global changes in weather patterns, where they became first adversaries and then allies of ancient Egypt as the enigmatic “People of the Sea” and subsequently colonized the Aegean Sea to become the forebears of Helenic civilization. His book “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales” is a game changer and well worth the effort.
Vikings.... subsequently colonized the Aegean Sea to become the forebears of Helenic civilization
***Utterly doubtful. Hellenic civilization precedes the vikings by about a thousand years.
There’s a whole bunch of “the Odyssey was really over here” claims by various authors, it’s analogous to claiming Atlantis was here there and everywhere.