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[[File:Norwegian petty kingdoms ca. 872.png|thumb|125px|right|Map depicting [[Petty kingdoms of Norway|petty kingdoms]] across Norway in {{circa}} 872.]]

Norwegian or Norse Vikings<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of English|edition=2nd|editor1-last=Soanes|editor1-first= Catherine|editor2-last=Stevenson|editor2-first= Angus|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|title=Norse|page=1200|isbn=0-19-8613474}}</ref> raided and settled in [[Shetland]], [[Orkney]], Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. In the United Kingdom, many names for places ending in -''kirk'', -''ness'', -''thorpe'', -''toft'' and -''by'' are likely Norse in origin.<ref name="Nikel 2020">{{cite web | last=Nikel | first=David | title=Viking Settlements in Scandinavia and Beyond | website=Life in Norway | date=17 June 2020 | url=https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-settlements/ | access-date=24 April 2023 | archive-date=24 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424141609/https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-settlements/ | url-status=live }}</ref> In 947, a new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England when [[ErikEric Bloodaxe]] captured [[York]]. InStarting in the 8th century and onwards throughout the Early Middle Ages, both Norwegian and Danish Vikings also settled in [[Normandy]], most famously those led by [[Rollo]], and thus began the tradition of the [[Normans]] (also meaning 'men from the north'), who expanded to England, [[Sicily]], and other [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] islands.

Apart from Britain and Ireland, Norwegian Vikings established settlements in largely uninhabited regions.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} The first known permanent Norwegian settler in Iceland was [[Ingólfur Arnarson]]. In the year 874 he settled in [[Reykjavík]].

After his expulsion from Iceland [[Erik the Red]] discovered Greenland, a name he chose in hope of attracting Icelandic settlers.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} Viking settlements were established in the sheltered fjords of the southern and western coast.{{citation needed|date=October 2011}} Erik's relative [[Leif ErikssonErikson]] later discovered North America.

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