Viking ships

As soon as they were not called - Vikings, Varangians, people of the sea, pagan monsters. Detachments of these extremely brave, hardy and cruel warriors on small fast ships made rapid raids on the coastal cities of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, carrying death and destruction everywhere.
Later, the Vikings crossed the Caspian Sea, and reached Baghdad, and the pirate and navigator Eric the Red in 1000 - almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus - reached the coast of North America and founded a settlement in the north of Newfoundland.