Vikings or Normans are, for more than 250 years, remembered as robbers, merchants, conquerors and excellent sailors. They have completely changed the history of Europe and left behind vary of achievement that are to this day in use. They were polytheists, or more known as pagans, that believed in natural forces and many different gods, who helped them in need. Their gods protected them from different attacks, but also protecting families, fields and crops. It is important to mention that they were excellent shipbuilders and sailors. Their ships can be classified as masterpieces, because they paid attention to details and took care of them. Since they were building strong and resistant ships, which took them to places still untouched by man, they managed to conquer many different places, some still untouched by man. Ships were the beginning and the end of the Viking era. They spread fear in Western Europe. When people saw them coming from the see they started praying to God to free them from the ‘rage of the Normans’. Over the centuries, some new boats came, Vikings became weaker and lots of them assimilated with Western Europeans.