Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. European
6. Medieval styles and periods

Anotations

Scope note:

Culture and style of a people of early medieval eastern Europe, probably originally Norse from Sweden, settling and ruling along the river routes between the Baltic and Black Seas, dating 8th-11th centuries.