08-26-2011, 12:56 PM
There have been connections between Scandinavia and the Roman Empire in the 1st to 5th Centuries at least, mostly via the continental Germanic tribes but also in direct contacts.
For example (Southern)Scandinavian mercenaries are known to have been fighting for and against Rome in the Marcomannic wars.
In the historian's terminology it would be wrong to call them Vikings as they got this name after their raids in the late 8th Century.
In the Roman era they're simply called northern Germanics, but - of course - you can call them the ancestors of the later Vikings.
Greets
For example (Southern)Scandinavian mercenaries are known to have been fighting for and against Rome in the Marcomannic wars.
In the historian's terminology it would be wrong to call them Vikings as they got this name after their raids in the late 8th Century.
In the Roman era they're simply called northern Germanics, but - of course - you can call them the ancestors of the later Vikings.
Greets
Andreas Gagelmann
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
