They became Christians. But the true viking age was over by 1066. To say this this boat has anything to do with the Vikings is a stretch that I wouldn’t be comfortable with. There’s nothing wrong with saying it’s from the medieval period. There’s no need to use the term ‘Viking’.
No, absolutely. I didn’t mean that this boat was a viking boat. It wasn’t. 1066 is the most commin year for the viking age end. In Sweden some times a bit later. Baltics and Finland 12th century could still be called viking age. But 15th, no way.
Baltic to cut off around 1050CE nowadays due to the merchant colonies - some excellent archaeology & Estonian research work recently on that.
(Finland isn't my specialty tbh I do southern Baltic. Some still stretch the Vikings out til 1150CE but it seems rather thin imo.)
