%0 Journal Article %T SCANDINAVIAN MIGRATION IN THE VIKING AGE %A Wladyslaw Duczko %J Studia Humanistyczne (Krak¨®w. 2003) %D 2011 %I %X Movements of Scandinavians in period between late 8th AD to middle of 11th AD, called Viking Age, were combined military actions-piracy ¨C and migrations with goal to colonize territories in the West Europe ¨C mainly Insular world of Atlantic and British isles, but also in East Europe, among Finno-Ugrians and Slavs. This activity is seen as the recent, and last, of the Migration Period, the time of great movements of Germanic people in the 4th century AD. %K Scandinavia %K Vikings %K West and East Europe %K migrations %K piracy %K colonization %U http://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/2011-10/SH_2011_10_03.pdf