WHAT IF... THE VIKINGS NEVER SAILED OVERSEAS?
What if the famed and feared seafaring folk of Scandinavia had simply decided to remain at home, coping with the harsh conditions and content with lives spent fishing? Perhaps they might have never mastered the art of shipbuilding, which allowed them to take to the open sea and navigate to lands beyond the horizon. Or they found another outlet for their proclivities to raid and pillage. There would have been no Viking Age.
The ramifications on world history are, simply, unknowable. From the raid on Lindisfarne in AD 793 – the event often cited as
