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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7751547, member: 84905"]Maybe we are talking about different things here. </p><p>1) there is the historical periodisation according to which the Roman Imperial Age ended around AD 500 and (in Scandinavia) the Viking Age begins in AD 793. Hence, in this historical periodisation, Romans never met Vikings. However, Romans met Heruls, as I explained before.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) there is the confusion about ethnic terms. No Roman source, pagan or Christian, ever mentions any Vikings by that name or similar. The Byzantines (Romanoi) came into contact with Norsemen, called Varangers. The term Viking was never applied to Norsemen who sailed down the Russian Rivers to Constantinople. In this sense, Christian Romans, Romanoi or Byzantines (let alone pagan Romans) ever came into contact with Vikings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 7751547, member: 84905"]Maybe we are talking about different things here. 1) there is the historical periodisation according to which the Roman Imperial Age ended around AD 500 and (in Scandinavia) the Viking Age begins in AD 793. Hence, in this historical periodisation, Romans never met Vikings. However, Romans met Heruls, as I explained before. 2) there is the confusion about ethnic terms. No Roman source, pagan or Christian, ever mentions any Vikings by that name or similar. The Byzantines (Romanoi) came into contact with Norsemen, called Varangers. The term Viking was never applied to Norsemen who sailed down the Russian Rivers to Constantinople. In this sense, Christian Romans, Romanoi or Byzantines (let alone pagan Romans) ever came into contact with Vikings.[/QUOTE]
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