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| '''Estonian pirates''', AKA '''Estonian vikings''' appear in history and legends. Although the eastern shores of the Baltic sea during the era were referred to as Estland in general by the Scandinavians and others. Estland that also is the modern national name of Estonia in Germanic languages, the Vikings from Estonia (]:''Vikinger fra Estland'') <ref name="OTS">{{no icon}}</ref> originated mainly from ] (Modern Latvia) and ] (Modern Estonia). | |||
| ] relates in his '']'' that the Swedish king ] (]), the son of ], was a great warrior who had to spend time patrolling the shores of his kingdom fighting Estonian pirates. | |||
| According to ] sagas in the year ] the ] Queen Astrid with her son ] escaped from her homeland to her brother Sigurd, who lived in an honoured position in ] at the court of ]. On their way, ''Estonian vikings'' robbed the ship, ''killing some, taking others into slavery''. Six years later when Sigurd Eirikson traveled to Estonia to collect taxes on behalf of Valdemar, he spotted ] on a market and bought him out from slavery. | |||
| A battle between Estonian and ]ic vikings in ] is described in ] to have occurred in ]. | |||
| About ] AD ], who later became the king of ], landed on ]. The ], taken by surprise, had at first agreed to pay the tax he demanded but then gathered an army at the time of the negotiations and attacked the Norwegians. Olaf nevertheless won the battle. | |||
| Around the year ] a ] ] chief called Fröger was killed in a battle on ]. | |||
| ] Ulf (Uleb) from ] was crushed by Estonians in a sea battle at the proximity of ] in ] according to the ]. | |||
| Since the ], chroniclers' descriptions of Estonian, ] and ]n raids to the coasts of ] and ] have become more frequent. | |||
| The ] describes a fleet of sixteen ships and five hundred ] ravaging the area that is now southern ], then belonging to ]. In the XIV book of ], ] describes a battle on ] that took place in ], where the Danish king ] had to gather his entire fleet in order to curb the incursions of the Couronian and Estonian pirates. | |||
| In ], the Swedish town of ] was attacked by Baltic-Finnic raiders from ], ] or ]. Among the casualties of this raid was the Swedish archbishop ]. It remained occupied for some time. This contributed to the diminishing of its commercial importance in the 13th century, in favor of ], ], ] and ].<ref></ref> | |||
| It is indited in the ] that the Estonians had two kinds of ships – ''piratica'' and ''liburna''. The aforementioned was a battleship, the latter mainly a merchant ship. ''Piratica'' could carry approximately 30 men. It had a high prow shaped like a dragon or a snakehead and a quadrangular sail. | |||
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