if you want to learn more:

Walk through a (now lost) exhibition of finds from a Merovingian-era Frankish cemetery.

Guy Halsall, one of the more stimulating historians of the early Middle Ages, maintains a blog he calls "Transformations of the Year 600: The End of the Ancient World?" His recent postings cover topics such as Picts, the demise of the state in the early medieval West, and the Staffordshire Hoard (discovered in 2009: the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found).

Sample some Carolingian manuscript miniatures, metalwork and architecture
or check out several gorgeous samples of the new script popularised during the age of Charlemagne, the Carolingian (Caroline) minuscule – from which the later 'humanist' script of the Renaissance, and thence our modern typefaces, descend.

For some of the earliest records of vernacular languages, see the 9thC Oaths of Strasbourg, given on 14 February 842 in French and German (of a kind).

Vikings have been getting lots of attention from various directions, including on the History Channel. For a truly masterful presentation of the Viking Mind, check out archaeologist Neil Price's three Messenger Lectures on the topic (Cornell, 2012).