We'll just have to agree to disagree on that.
And my apologies, sometimes I forget that you tend to interpret disagreement as an attack.
Yes the Franks had already produced Charlemagne but lots of Europe was still like post-Rome Briton with power vacuums being filled
Like where for instance?
amd especially stabilized, from the decline of the Roman Empire and collapse and demise of the Western Roman Empire.
Which occurred in the 5th century. The Vikings didn't really come into their own until around the 9th century.
A lot happened in the 400 years in between. Mainly the rise and spread of Islam which necessitated a consolidation of the christian powers in Europe. By that time marauding bands of Frank's, Goths, Celts, etc. acting independently and attacking their neighbors without going through proper channels were already a part of distant history.
And of course these larger states, such as England and France, would now and then get riled up bad and things would look like an episode of Game of Thrones.
But by that time England and France were a collection of established kingdoms which, as I mentioned in my previous post, necessitated going through a central authority before waging war with or conducting raids on your neighbors.
Tribes, clans, Earldoms, Dukedoms, weren't free to act on their own initiative by that time. Everybody had to go through their king or emperor, and kings and emperors typically needed permission from the Pope.
Plus I gave you examples of people who engaged in such behaviors during the Middle Ages.
The earlier Middle ages yes, between the fall of Rome and the emergence of the Caliphate. But we're talking about the Vikings so we're dealing with a timeline at least a hundred years later then the end of that era.
True, they really were a lot like us back then, but the back then also the hot heads, brutes and fighters who mostly won tended to get further ahead ahead because the possessions on those you killed in battle were loot, and even then and now we like winners who can elevate our status and better our position so these sorts of violent types also got lots of people turning to them as their loaf guardian/hlaford (our word for lord) was far better than they'd get elsewhere.
They very much were. They went to Briton to take it all over
The Vikings tried to conquer Britain? When was this? If you're talking about the Norman invasion I think your stretching things a bit. Normans were descended from Vikings, but we're talking about the Vikings themselves, not their descendants.
They went to France, settled, and became the Normans.
Which I suppose answers my question.
And largely they did have histories with eachother. The Great Heathen Army didn't just appear out of nowhere. There was history on top of history on top of history because even back then there were lots of us getting around and mingling with others.
But, again, the raids weren't usually motivated by history, they were motivated by opportunity.
