From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman Conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinav
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The time seems appropriate for this book. It is now over half a century since W. G. Collingwood published his classic st
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The popular image of the Viking Age is a time of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of No
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The present volume is concerned with that period in the history of the Scandinavian peoples when they were growing, but
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From "Viking Settlements and Viking Society".
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The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 – a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a
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That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth
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Ever since the days of Saxo and the story of Thyra Dannebod as the builder of the Dannewerk, fortification has been seen
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