**“Ideas about Vikings today can often not be verified scientifically”**
_“They are based essentially on reports written by Christian scholars in the High Middle Ages well over a century later, since, besides brief runic inscriptions, no written texts from the original period have been preserved”_
🔗 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2025/PM_Scheel_Wikinger.shtml.