Viking Old Rugs

There are about a million kinds of animal artwork from the ancient Vikings. All of ther ancient rugs and tapestries featued ribbon-like animals. Eric the Red colonized Greenland (well, really he tricked people into going to Greenland by calling it Greenland becuase there was no more room on Iceland). His son Leif Erickson discovered Vinland, aka present-day America. These men brought tons of cultural and artistic innovations to all of the places they colonized (read: pillaged) including old rugs and other clothwork.
Vikings are what scientists called "awesome", although they didn't actually have horns on their helmets. Too impractical.
Two Olafs in Norway and Denmark, basically the kings of the land, decided to go Christian long after these colonizations. They were baptized and spread the word of Christianity around the end of the tenth century.
 Viking life was pretty chill. They tended to have some animal husbandry and fishing, those were their main exports. They had a lot of leaders. They would go out and become like sea kings and build up their prestige by being pirates. THe work viking basically means pirates. THey would come back with their treasures and their followers and declare themselves King. Later on, especially in Denmark there was a more cohesive ruling class .Later on, Queen Margaret, united scandinavia. She was the daughter of the king of Norway and then she married next in line to the trhone of Denmark, and then her son was basically in a position to be king of both Denmark and Norway. But then in Sweden there were rebellions, and they had a Garman king on the throne. He was going to be deposed. Margaret's son died, and since seh was regent, she became Queen. She used some political manipulations to put herself as the new Queen. She got a rich Earl in Sweden to help her, and she was able to depose the German king and rule over Sweden.