Mapping the Vikings with Tenaya Jorgensen

By Mapping the Vikings, archaeology PhD student Tenaya Jorgensen has developed a fascinating new narrative about what was happening in the 9th-century North Sea and Atlantic Viking world: two distinct Viking groups - one centered on the Irish Sea and Scottish region(s), and the other in England, Frankia and the Channel Area - were raiding, trading and settling in the early Viking Age, with the former dominated by groups from western Norway and the latter from southern Scandinavia.

Tenaya asks us to move away from Anglo-centric ideas of the 'Great Army', reimagining it as a 'Channel Army' influential not only in England, but also in its apparent area of origin in that coastal area between the Danish territories in southern Scandinavia and western France. While there are (later) political connections between Dublin and York, this is more a 10th-century development.

Ultimately, it is - as Tenaya states - 'all politics', with the biggest developments relating to the massive 'ripples of power' set off by a Frankish (Carolingian) state with designs on Danish possessions, that then included large parts of southern Norway and south-west Sweden.

Click the link to see Tenaya's Open Access interactive map: https://www.tenayajorgensen.com/vikingagemap

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