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Viking, called Normans, settled on the coast of France (Normandy). With William the Conqueror as their leader, they attacked and defeated the English in 1066.
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About the year 1000, Eric’s son, Leif Ericson, landed on the North American coast, found wild grapes and named his discovery Vinland.
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Eric the Red landed in Greenland in 982.
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There were no sailors as daring as them, and their explorers set out for distant places. They reached Iceland in 870.
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Charlemagne past away in 814.
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An attack on Dublin in 795 was followed by plundering raids along the coasts of Ireland, western England, France, Germany, and eventually as far south as Sicily. Overland raids from Sweden spread into Russia and down the rivers to Baku on the Caspian Sea and Istanbul (Constantinople) on the Black Sea.