A Devastating Massacre Explains the Migration During the Age of the Vikings

There was an Iron Age massacre on an island near Sweden. The victims were not buried, as described by the scientists that discovered their bodies 1,600 years later. This was one of the most horrific massacres of the pre-Viking age. That was why that island—Sandby Borg—was never reoccupied again. The extreme Viking period definitely affected the great migration and variation in this society.

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