Viking Age
c. 793–1066
Scandinavian raiding, trading and settling.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 793–1066
- Place
- Northern Europe
Who was alive during Viking Age
- Rabia of Basra c. 717–801, Sufi mystic
- Charlemagne c. 748–814, emperor
- Harun al-Rashid c. 763–809, caliph
- Al-Khwarizmi c. 780–c. 850, mathematician
- Al-Farabi c. 872–c. 950, philosopher
- Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
- Erik the Red c. 950–c. 1003, explorer
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
- Leif Erikson c. 970–c. 1020, explorer
- Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
- Murasaki Shikibu c. 973–c. 1014, novelist
- Avicenna c. 980–1037, philosopher and physician
- William the Conqueror c. 1028–1087, king
- Shen Kuo 1031–1095, polymath
- Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111, theologian and philosopher