VIKING

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If you want me to make some changes for you, just ask me in Instagram Direct @boris3dstudio https://www.instagram.com/boris3dstudio/ The model is not fixed. I don't have time for it now. If you fix it for print, create a Remix, or send me a new model to re-upload it. Viking warriors were Norse sailors, primarily speaking Old Norse, who during the late 8th to late 11th centuries raided and traded from their Northern European homes across wide areas of Europe, and explored westwards to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. The term Viking is also commonly extended in modern English and other dialects to the inhabitants of Norse home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Nordic military, mercantile, and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia, Estonia, the British Isles, France, Kievan Rus', and Sicily. Facilitated by advanced sailing and navigational skills, and characterized by the longship, Viking activities at times also extended into the Mediterranean littoral, North Africa, and the Middle East. Following extended phases of (primarily sea- or river-borne) exploration, expansion, and settlement, Viking communities and governments were established in diverse areas of north-western Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia, the North Atlantic islands, and as far as the north-eastern coast of North America. This period of expansion witnessed the wider dissemination of Norse culture, while simultaneously introducing strong foreign cultural influences into Scandinavia itself, with profound developmental implications in both directions. Popular modern conceptions of Viking warriors—the term frequently applied casually to their modern descendants and the inhabitants of modern Scandinavia—often strongly differ from the complex picture that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. A romanticized picture of Vikings as noble savages began to emerge in the 18th century; this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival. Perceived views of the Vikings as alternatively violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers owe much to conflicting varieties of the modern Viking myth that had taken shape by the early 20th century. Current popular representations of Viking warriors are typically based on cultural clichés and stereotypes, complicating modern appreciation of the Viking legacy. These representations are not always accurate—for example, there is no evidence that they wore horned helmets. There are also diverging opinions in academia about Viking ethnicities.