Vikings did Vikinging a full century before Lindisfarne on the eastern shore of the Baltic. There’s Salme ships on Saaremaa dated to around 700 AD, as well as t

Vikings did Vikinging a full century before Lindisfarne on the eastern shore of the Baltic. There’s Salme ships on Saaremaa dated to around 700 AD, as well as the Scandinavian settlement in Grobina, Courland with its start dated to 650 AD. There are also Vendel age Scandinavian finds deeper in Courland along the rivers, such as seeming trade outposts and such. Sure, maybe that doesn’t count as it’s primarily Gotlanders, and the lands in question were not Christian, but Scandinavians learned to sail around, trade, fight, and colonize long before Lindisfarne.