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en-wikipedia-org-6638		Vikings - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	23828	2765	72	Geographically, the Viking Age covered Scandinavian lands (modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden), as well as territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, including Scandinavian York, the administrative centre of the remains of the Kingdom of Northumbria,[60] parts of Mercia, and East Anglia.[61] Viking navigators opened the road to new lands to the north, west and east, resulting in the foundation of independent settlements in the Shetland, Orkney, and Faroe Islands; Iceland; Greenland;[62] and L'Anse aux Meadows, a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, circa 1000.[63] The Greenland settlement was established around 980, during the Medieval Warm Period, and its demise by the mid-15th century may have been partly due to climate change.[64] The Viking Rurik dynasty took control of territories in Slavic and Finno-Ugric-dominated areas of Eastern Europe; they annexed Kiev in 882 to serve as the capital of the Kievan Rus'.[65]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6638.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6638.txt