Editing Norsemen (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:WikingerKarte.jpg|alt=|thumb|Exploration and expansion routes of Norsemen]]
The British conception of the Vikings' origins was inaccurate.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} Those who plundered Britain lived in what is today Denmark, [[Scania]], the western coast of Sweden and Norway (up to almost the [[70th parallel north|70th parallel]]) and along the Swedish Baltic coast up to around the [[60th parallel north|60th latitude]] and Lake [[Mälaren]]. They also came from the island of [[Gotland]], Sweden. The border between the Norsemen and more southerly Germanic tribes, the [[Danevirke]], today is located about {{convert|50|km|mi}} south of the Danish–German border. The southernmost living Vikings lived no further north than [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], and travelled to Britain more from the east than from the north.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

The Norse Scandinavians established polities and settlements in what are now Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales), Ireland, Iceland, Russia, Belarus, France, [[Sicily]], Belgium, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, [[Greenland]], Canada,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/the-vikings-a-memorable-visit-to-america-98090935/|first=Eugene |last=Linden|title=The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America |work=Smithsonian Magazine|date=December 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924131313/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-vikings-a-memorable-visit-to-america-98090935/?no-ist |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> and the [[Faroe Islands]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Church |first1=M. J. |last2=Arge |first2=S. M. V. |last3=Edwards |first3=K. J. |last4=Ascough |first4=P. L. |last5=Bond |first5=J. M. |last6=Cook |first6=G. T. |last7=Dockrill |first7=S. J. |last8=Dugmore |first8=A. J. |last9=McGovern |first9=T. H. |last10=Nesbitt |first10=C. |last11=Simpson |first11=I. A. |year=2013 |title=The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands |url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/19329/1/19329.pdf |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=77 |pages=228–232 |bibcode=2013QSRv...77..228C |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011 |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=22 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607131932/https://dro.dur.ac.uk/19329/1/19329.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>