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In addition to land, the Vikings were keen on one other kind of merchandise: people whom they sold as slaves. A thousand such slaves were taken from Armagh in one raid alone. A burial dated to 879 contained a Viking warrior with his sword, two ritually murdered slave girls and the bones of hundreds of men, women and children, his very own body count, to take with him to Valhalla. On the positive side, though, there was one thing that the Vikings did manage to do, however, inadvertently. They created England. By smashing the power of most of the Saxon kingdoms, the Vikings accomplished what left to themselves, the warring tribes could never have managed some semblance of alliance against a common foe. |
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chú tǔ dì wài, ràng wéi jīng rén chuí xián de hái yǒu yí yàng. rén, kě zuò wéi nú lì bèi fàn mài de rén. zài ā mǎ gǔ jùn míng, wèi yú běi ài ěr lán zì zhì qū de yī cì jié lüè xíng dòng, jiù néng bǔ huò qiān yú nú lì. 879 nián yī wèi wéi jīng yǒng shì de zàng lǐ, péi zàng de chú le tā de jiàn, hái yǒu liǎng míng zài zàng lǐ shàng shā diào de nǚ nú, yǐ jí shàng bǎi nán nǚ hé hái zi de shī gǔ. zuò wéi tā de xùn zàng pǐn, hù sòng tā jìn rù yīng líng diàn. cóng jī jí fāng miàn kàn, yǒu yī jiàn shì qíng shì wéi jīng rén cù chéng de, suī rán zhè bìng fēi tā men běn yì: tā men chéng jiù le yīng gé lán. sā kè xùn zhū wáng guó zhú gè kuì sàn, wéi jīng rén chéng gōng dì cù shǐ zhèi xiē xiāng hù dí duì de bù luò, zuò chū le tā men zì jǐ běn yǒng bú huì zuò chū de jué dìng jiàn lì yí gè lián méng lái dǐ yù gòng tóng de dí rén, |