Timeline AD 1 to 1500 | Viking Archaeology

c. AD1 to 400 Warrior aristocracy emerges in southern Scandinavia.

c.400 to 600 forts built at Eketorp and Ismantorp on Öland. Angles and Jutes migrate to Britain.

c. 425 to 500 Saxons migrate to Britain

455 and 460 Heruls raid Spain.

AD 410 Visigoths sack Rome. Emporor Honorius tells Britain to look to its own defences.

476 Fall of Roman Empire in the west.

482 Clovis king of the Franks.

c. 550 Gothic writer Jordanes records locations of Scandinavian peoples.

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