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Scandinavia timeline
c. 500 BC
The Lapps, hunters of reindeer, have Scandinavia to themselves before the arrival of Germanic tribes
c. 50
Tribes speaking Finno-Ugric languages are by now settled around the northeast of the Baltic, in modern Estonia and Finland
c. 650
The Vikings develop the fast and narrow longships with which they raid across the North Sea
Viking ship
Fotofile CG
c. 800
Beowulf
, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
811
Hemming, a Danish king, makes a treaty with the Franks establishing the river Eider as the southern border of Denmark
c. 850
Communal gatherings, the
thing
and the larger
althing
, are the distant origins of Scandivian parliaments
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