![]() She saw a mound on the beach near the anchors. She visited the region in March 2014 when storms caused Viking anchors to wash ashore. Most of the studies focus on their activities in other countries such as Britain and Ireland. They visited the area from around 840 until the 11th century but there is no realization that there is this vast thing to be explored. “Internationally, there is only a vague knowledge that the Vikings went there. ![]() “There are written accounts of Viking raids in northern Spain but, archaeologically, absolutely nothing has been done on an academic scale,” she told The University of Aberdeen’s research news website. She expressed surprise about how little is known about the Vikings’ activities in Spain. However, the lack of information about Viking activities in Spain is about to change with a new study planned by Irene García Losquiño of the University of Aberdeen’s Center for Scandinavian Studies. Map of Viking expansion in Europe ( Wikimedia Commons ) Maybe some Vikings of that time and place were known as Erico el Rojo instead of Erik the Red. Locals take pride in Viking heritage and point to some people’s blue eyes and ginger hair. Unusually, the Vikings’ presence in one particular place that they landed and stayed a while, northern Galicia in Spain, has not been studied. ![]() They voyaged from their homelands in Scandinavia, north and west to Iceland and Vinland and south down the Atlantic Coast and into the Mediterranean and Black Sea and up into Eastern Europe and Russia. Many people do not realize how far and wide the Vikings of the 8 th to 11 th centuries ranged. ![]()
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