The Viking Age

end of the Viking Age). It would be reductionist and misleading to make a conclusion that the Viking Age ended due to climate change, based on this form of evidence. Although, if it’s in conjunction with other more solid evidence, then this statistical data would be useful in this sense as it can allow us to see it from a more scientific perspective, rather than just historical.

Of course, it can not be denied that the colder weather did make communication through the sea much more challenging, thus made trading with other European countries nearly impossible. One could also assume that the Vikings had shorter growing session for their crops, suggesting that starvation

Nevertheless, until more research is conducted on this topic we can not confirm nor stress that climate change was key in bringing the end of the Viking Age. Additionally, this argument completely ignores the rest of the Viking world and what the change in climate had done to their existence, however naturally there is minimal evidence for this. Climate change possibly may have impacted the Viking Greenlanders, but due to the nature of the evidence, it can not be certain that this was enough to bring the end of the Viking Age in mid 11th

One of the first accounts of Catholic missionaries coming to Scandinavia was Ansgar (Saint Ansgar) in 830 as seen in Fig.2, where he is depicted as converting the Danes. Before we discuss how the introduction of Christianity to the Vikings had led to the end of the Viking Age in mid 11th Century, we must first converse the enigmatic aspect of religion (both Viking and Christianity) and the importance’s it has for society and culture, especially in the Middle Ages, where religion played more of a central role in peoples lives and the society that they live in, which is evident in the apparent need to convert paganism to Christianity and that every aspect of Medieval life was centered around religion and the approval of the