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The Viking Settlers
History has painted the Vikings as aggressive, anarchic sea raiders, but this view has changed somewhat in recent times. The
restless voyaging that took the Vikings around the coasts of Britain and into the deep estuaries of northern France led to
bloody conflict. There seems no question that the Vikings plundered and destroyed. But modern theory argues that a desire
for new territory made them settlers in foreign lands more often than just violent raiders. In later, more stable times, the
Vikings' commercial success was just as powerful as their military ferocity had been.
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