User blog comment:Elgb333/Season 2 Finale: Marco Polo vs Leif Erikson/@comment-17814994-20160202153146/@comment-17814994-20160203025349

I think's there's a bit truth to that LB. One of the reasons why Vikings pillaged and plundered Europe was also to gain their own lands to settle. You have to know Scandinavia only has a few farmlands to farm, and the explosion of Viking population meant that some has to leave the homelands and find their own.

Here's a video to learn more too ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBehjjt6V70

P.S. Can you spare a vote LB?