  ==The Vikings== Well if you claim to know something about the Vikings, then you must have read the sagas, and the archaeological evidence in support of the sagas (Helge Ingstad et alia). The evidence for early Bronze age settlement is itself well discussed on Wiki. I have the evidence of my own eyes on Dartmoor , Exmoor and the Pennines in England which show large settlements on land which no longer supports anything except sheep and tourists. Do fanatics try to examne the evidence objectively??  