🔹 Use the slider at the bottom of the map to adjust the displayed year.
🔹 Use the play controls to quickly increment the year and animate the map through time.
The settings gear (⚙️) can be used to access additional controls:
🔹 Use the "Enter year" box to quickly navigate to a specific year.
🔹 Use the "Play rate" box to set the rate of the animation (and the skip controls increment).
🔹 Use the opacity slider to adjust the transparency of the polity shapes.
🔹 Use the "Choose base map" dropdown to switch between different base maps.
🔹 Learn more about the polity border choices.
This polity refers to the Norse settlements in Scandinavia up to the formation of the kingdoms of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, as well as Norse settlements in Iceland (before 930 CE, the foundation of the Icelandic Commonwealth), Greenland, Newfoundland, the Baltic, Russia, Scotland and Ireland, and northern France. It excludes the Danelaw in England, which is coded in a different polity.
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