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Viking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. |
 | | Viking navigators also opened the road to new lands to the north and to the west, resulting in the colonialization of Shetland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and even a short expedition to Newfoundland, ca. |
 | | The Romanticist heroic Viking ideal, and the Wagnerian mythology, also appealed to the Germanic supremacist thinkers of Nazi Germany, as reflected, for example, in the runic emblem of the SS, and the neo-Nazi youth organization Wiking-Jugend (founded in 1950, modelled on the Hitler-Jugend), and its Odal rune symbol (see also fascist symbolism). |
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