How did the Vikings die out?

It should be noted that the Vikings didn't only raid. Several Viking parties went east and founded Kievan Rus', one of the earlier Russian states. Iceland and Greenland weren't raided by the Vikings, but rather, settled by them. Even the lands that the Vikings did raid, they would also settle. read more

A ship, required for raiding, was a substantial investment, and one couldn't leave one's farm unless there were enough hired hands available to take care of the farm chores while the owner was out raiding. By the end of the Viking age, this balance had changed. read more

In the ninth century, the advances in seafaring technology that enabled Scandinavian Vikings to raid northern and central Europe also opened the way for the Norse, as they came to be known in their later, peaceful incarnations, to journey west to Iceland. read more