Until the Viking Age began, at the end of the 8th century, Scandinavia went through a long evolution of thousands of years, the beginning of which we will go back to the presence of the first settlers, hunter, fisherman and gatherer peoples who began to arrive towards the 12,000 BC both to the southern part of the peninsula and to the territories of Denmark. It is
believed that the arrival of the first settlers would have coincided with a moment in which a climatic change took place that favored a substantial softening of the climate in the area, which in turn caused an increase in the flora of the territory; This was covered with a layer of tundra that was evolving in the appearance of evergreen forests and deciduous forests that attracted new species of animals that endowed the area with new fauna. These animals that are likely to be hunted and consumed are the ones that, in the end, attracted the first hunting and gathering peoples, still nomadic peoples that began to inhabit the lowest area of Scandinavia, a territory that is considered more or less sporadically populated. from the Mesolithic, around 8,200 BC