[blam]

GGG Ping.

[NordP]

What, they found some of my peeps???

[JohnA]

I want to be buried in my wife’s Saab.

[razorback-bert]

This is amazing, Viking graves in Norway, who would have thought that.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Plutarch]

These appear to be ancient Scandinavian gravesites, but what makes them specifically Viking? Couldn't they just as easily have been prior to 793? If during the Viking Age, the settlement might not have been strictly Viking, but rather agricultural. According to Wikipedia:

The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors, pirates and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia from the late 8th–11th century. This period (generally dated 793–1066) is often referred to as the Viking Age. The term Viking has also denoted entire populations of Viking Age Scandinavia and their settlements, as an expanded meaning.