A new age of violence and competition was dawning in Northern Europe. Vikings from Denmark had just raided their first of many targets in England: the Monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. If ambitious men and women wanted to make a place for themselves in the brave new medieval world, they had to change with the times." Times were changing, people were growing more refined, borders were solidifying, stone was being chiseled, deeds were being written down. The only relief from transient fortune and infrastructure seemed to be organized religion, and many an experiment was done to take advantage of it. States didn’t really exist and if they did, they always fell apart on the death of their King. No one seemed certain of anything, and plans (not to mention buildings) were always made for the short term. The fast-paced competitive, oath-bonded culture of then reminds us a little of today. This strange era between the Late Antiquity and the Late Medieval period is so fascinating because political fortunes were so transient.
It was a century where the fortunes of many were eclipsed by those of the few as the slow steam-roll of conquest and progress rolled on.
It’s a century where the desire for unrestrained ambition, power, submission, cruelty and classism was challenged by those who saw a need for humility and manners among Kings. It’s an incredibly fascinating century as far as what it says about the human condition. This is Northern Europe in the seventh century. Families, warring over the right to tax scraps of land, warring over who is to rule all other families, and warring over which God they’re all going to follow. "The world used to be a very different place.
HTML Viking Age Northern Europe: A Historical Roleplay & Faction-Survival Server by Dwarfsosi.Viking Age Northern Europe: A Historical Roleplay & Faction-Survival Server by Dwarfsosi
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