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Au Temps des Vikings. Moyen-âge social and cultural ruptures forFrom 800 to 1100, the Vikings, coming from the North, sowed terror in many European cities. They pillaged, seized the treasures of churches and monasteries, kidnapped inhabitants whom they ransomed or sold into slavery. But it is often overlooked that these exceptional merchants opened new trade routes between the North, Baghdad, and Byzantium. They settled in Russia, the British Isles, Ireland, Iceland, and Greenland. They developed a refined poetry,