Why did the Viking age come to a end?

On 1066, On the same year and week, the last Viking invasion army came into England and the first Norman invasion army came into England. The Saxon king Harold went with his army up to the border of Scotland where he fought in the battle Stanford bridge where the Norwegian Viking king Harald Hardrada was killed. This is when most historians mark the end of the Viking age but the decline of the Vikings started decades ago.

for 300 years the Vikings dominated western Europe until they started losing men in open warfare. The Viking way of fighting was to swam over towns taking and burning anything that got in their way. So when the kings of western Europe started to created armies to fight the Vikings, the Vikings had a disadvantage. At around 900AD, many lords had adopted the feudal system where men would fight for the king in return of land and peasants. This is what started Knighthood, knights are lords who recruit armies and fight for the kings in return for honour. Also this meant that now men where trained to fight unlike the Vikings who used their instincts to fight others.

Another reason for their downfall was Christianity. When the Vikings were around, most of Europe except for the Vikings were Christians. The Vikings who were from Sweden, Denmark and Sweden all believed in Norse gods. As they raided Christian settlements they were exposed to Christianity. Slowly over time the Vikings began to convert to Christianity. When the Kings became Christians then that meant even the strongest believers of their pagans gods were forced into Christianity. The reason why this stop them fighting was because the old gods and religion was based on war because if you were to die in battle you would go to heaven but when Christianity came they stoped fight because they new they would get into heaven if they pray, not fight.

In conclusion, the Viking age came to a stop because of too many nations became too strong to fight and they adopted Christianity which frowned on them fighting others.     

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