The Viking Expeditions from Central Sweden (700-1000):

or Lars' undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Chapter 1: Introduction.

• 1.1: purpose,
• 1.2: sources,
• 1.3: methods.

Chapter 2: Background.

• 2.1: climate and geography,
• 2.2: technology and resources,
• 2.3: culture and population.

Chapter 3: Contributing factors for the expeditions.

• 3.1: Climate and Geography,
• 3.2: Technology and Resources,
• 3.3: Culture and Population.

Chapter 4: Effects that the Expeditions had on the Svear.

• 4.1: Sources of Violence,
• 4.2: Adjustments by Society,
• 4.3: Result (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder),

Chapter 5: Summary.

Sources and Bibliography.

The sections are big text files. Combined, they are about 120K.
Also, I now realize that I didn't upload the final revision. Oops.

Here is a Map viewer (viewer by PARC Xerox, data provided by the U.S. Government) pointed at the Mälar river valley in Sweden. This show the current water levels in the Baltic, which are now very much lower than they were a thousand years ago. See chapter 2 for more information about the water levels.