The British Chronicles, Volume 1, David Hughes, pp. 268, Heritage Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7884-4490-6, ... The Viking Age saw the Nordic Sea-Peoples of Scandinavia, called 'Vikings', also 'Varangians', or 'North-Men' [=Normans'] ... from Scandinavia who terrorized Europe for roughly three hundred years attacking unexpectedly without warning, looting, pillaging, and burning villages and towns and massacring their inhabitants ...
