Fierce and inexorable warriors of the northern seas spread their expansion from the Baltic states and the Mediterranean Sea to France, Britain, Iceland and North America. In Russia they were called Varangians, in Byzantium - Varangians, in Western Europe - Normans. The fearless berserkers and sons of Odin are great Scandinavian Viking warriors. The best ships of that era - dracars - delivered their teams to the most remote corners of the planet. How the Scandinavian kings conquered the seas and lands, what powers and empires they created, what discoveries they made - you will learn all this from the book about the world of feats and cruelties, sagas and heroic tales. - The origins of expansion: Scandinavia in the middle of the first millennium - Dash across the North Sea: Scotland and the island of Man Conungs and clans: Ireland and the Island- Attempt of the Danish Empire: Britain and Knud the Great - Conquest of the North Atlantic: Iceland, Greenland and America- Way east: Rus, Byzantium and Caliphat- From the Normans to the Normans and from the Varangians to the Rusyns. Viking Age finale