How did medieval Western Europe feel about Scandinavians around the 1100s (after their mass conversion to Christianity)? Surely there still must have been some bad blood due to past raiding.
>>18616475Hm well, King Baldwin in Jerusalem gave Sigurd the Crusader a piece of the true cross to take home from Norway, and then he also left a good thousand men in Constantinople to serve in the Varangian Guard so it doesn’t seem like it. Same goes for Frankish responses to Scandinavians at large.
>>18616537Wow so they really did just >turn the other cheekVery Christlike.
>>18616542Most of the reading were settled by then.Norse were kicked from the Britannic isles for the majority, and the remnant in Mann, Scotland and Ireland were not a menace and were christianized.Norman in France were largely assimilated from a genetic and cultural point of view, and were regularly leading expedition against muslims and orthodox.Norse in Russia converted and assimilated to the local population as leading class.The focus on Norse raiding is due to english influence who were facing the biggest scandinavian invasion of the Middle Age, for most of the other peoples in Europe, they were anecdotic.
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