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en-wikipedia-org-6651		Concubinage - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10276	1168	69	Viking men would often buy or capture women and make them into their wives or concubines.[24][25] Concubinage for Vikings was connected to slavery; the Vikings took both free women and slaves as concubines.[24] Researchers have suggested that Vikings may have originally started sailing and raiding due to a need to seek out women from foreign lands.[26][27][28][29] Polygynous relationships in Viking society may have led to a shortage of eligible women for the average male, this is because polygyny increases male-male competition in society because it creates a pool of unmarried men who are willing to engage in risky status-elevating and sex seeking behaviors.[30][31] Due to this, the average Viking man could have been forced to perform riskier actions to gain wealth and power to be able to find suitable women.[32][33][34] The concept was expressed in the 11th century by historian Dudo of Saint-Quentin in his semi imaginary History of The Normans.[35] The Annals of Ulster depicts raptio and states that in 821 the Vikings plundered an Irish village and "carried off a great number of women into captivity".[36]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6651.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6651.txt