End-of-Viking-Age transition (1010s)

Name: End-of-Viking-Age transition (1010s)
Start: 1011
End: 1020

Type Event Region Europe Time 1011–1020

The 1010s were a key stage in the Viking Age's transition to medieval Northern European kingdoms: large-scale overseas raiding declined, Scandinavian…

Timeline

1011–1015Denmark · DenmarkIn the 1010s the Scandinavian states largely completed making Christianity the state religion, and traditional pagan rites and raiding culture declined. Overseas expeditions shifted from plunder to trade, colonization, and political conquest, and the Viking warrior class gradually merged into the feudal knight and royal retainer systems.
1016–1020London · United KingdomIn 1016 the Danish prince Cnut defeated all sides in England's civil war, became king of England, and subsequently annexed Denmark and Norway, forming an empire spanning the North Sea. This political integration marked the end of the peak of Viking military expansion, as Northern Europe entered the age of kingdoms.

Sources

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings — Peter Sawyer (1997)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle