Norway Dictionary of History
From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. At the time of the great migrations, Germanic tribes entered Norway forming numerous political groupings, in which the aborigines of perhaps Finnish race were incorporated. From the 8th century. with the Viking expeditions began the great expansion of the Norwegians outside (Scotland, England, Ireland, Iceland, etc.); the various Norwegian political-social groups united under the sovereignty of the Ynglinger, whose first historical figure is in the 9th century. Halvdan Svarte (the Black). Olaf…