Dr. Wayne Bartlett

And he was certainly one of the last raiders to have all this extensive international raiding going on.

So I think if we want to give the label of the end of the Viking Age to anybody, it probably belongs more to Harold Hardrada than most other people.

So Norway is now very much becoming an established European country, as is Denmark, as ultimately will be Sweden.

Sweden, for whatever reason, seems to be a bit later with these things.

But

Yeah, very much the end of one period of medieval history in Scandinavia and the transition to a quite different one, which follows on from it.