Pragya Vora

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One likely explanation is that there was, as a consequence of a sort of warm period, the medieval warm period, an explosion in population.

And as a consequence, there wasn't enough land in Scandinavia.

And so people started moving abroad to take their chances, really, to make something of their lives.

When he sees these three ships from foreign land show up in Portland, he goes rushing down to meet them, mainly to try and get them to leave in order to go to a king's port.

And the reason for that is that when merchants come in, they have dues to pay and those dues need to be paid in a king's port.

So he wasn't really trying to shoo them away or scare them away.

He was just trying to do the right thing.

They're getting more streamlined, particularly with the development of the true keel.

They're more able to sail further out into the ocean.

So we start getting ships that can go not just along coastlines, but can cross the open ocean and deal with particularly the strong ocean currents that you find in the North Atlantic.

The Vikings who came in, they got what they wanted, they looted, they took all the gold and silver that was held at Lindisfarne and that was them sorted.

There's nothing more complex about that.