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The explosion of Scandinavia in the Viking Age is generally portrayed as unprovoked & oppurtunistic raiding in English language stories. But to what degree was it in reaction to Carolingian consolidation & christianization?

by /u/pizza-flusher in /r/AskHistorians

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