Famous Vikings Part II

Through a treaty with Charles the Simple of the Franks, he became the 1st Duke of Normandy in exchange for his protection from Viking raids.

• Cnut

• Ragnar Lothbrok

• Rollo

• Olaf

He was a king of Denmark who introduced Christianity to them and consolidated his rule over most of Jutland and Zealand.

• Cnut

• Harald "Bluetooth"

• Sweyn Forkbeard

• Rollo

He was king of Denmark and king of Norway, but only king of England for 5 weeks.

• Sweyn Forkbeard

• Erik the Red

• Harold Fairhair

• Olaf Haraldsson

He was the first Norwegian king who united the petty kingships of Norway into a single realm in about 885.

• Rollo

• Cnut

• Oleg of Norgorod

• Harald Fairhair

He was king of the "North Sea Empire" (England, Denmark, and Norway) and married Emma of Normandy to gain the English throne.

• Bluetooth

• Leif Eriksson

• Sweyn Forkbeard

• Cnut

He was the first prince of Kiev who laid the foundation of the Kievan Rus' state.

• Leif Erikson

• Oleg of Norgorod

• Harald Fairhair

• Olaf Haraldsson

He was the king of Norway who granted sainthood because he brought widespread Christianity to the people of Scandinavia.

• Bluetooth

• Erik the Red

• Oleg of Norgorod

• Olaf Haraldsson

He was a Norse explorer who founded the first European settlement in Greenland.

• Cnut

• Leif Eriksson

• Erik the Red

• Harald Fairhair

He was a Norse explorer who is noted as the first European to have set foot on continental North America (Vinland [Newfoundland, Canada]).

• Leif Eriksson

• Rollo

• Olaf Haralsson

• Erik the Red