WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Over the next three centuries, they would leave their mark as pirates, raiders, traders and settlers on much of Britain and the European continent, as well as parts of modern-day Russia, Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides came under Norse control, sometimes as fiefs under the King of Norway, and at other times as separate entities under variously the Kings of the Isles, the Earldom of Orkney and the later Kings of Mann and the Isles.

Detailed explanation-3: -The defeat of the king of Norway, Harald III Sigurdsson, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 is considered the end of the age of Viking raids.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Normandy coast was repeatedly devastated by raids of the Vikings, or Northmen, from the 8th century on, and, as its Carolingian rulers became weaker, the Vikings penetrated farther inland in the course of their depredations.