The Vikings created a trade network that spanned the globe as far east as the River Volga and Byzantium (Istanbul), west to Dublin and Newfoundland, and north to Greenland and the North Cape. There is also evidence that they had contacts with the Middle and Far East.

Evidence from Jorvik demonstrates links with many parts of the world; objects found at Coppergate came from Norway, the Rhineland, the Baltic, Uzbekistan, and the Red Sea.