These Vikings were also the great international traders of the 9th and 10th centuries: ...

Most of what we know about the Viking raiders comes from the tales of the survivors of these raids rather than the Vikings themselves. The survivors tell of ships shaped like dragons, of brutal ...

the Viking hordes settled across Europe, with many battles breaking out particularly in England. This led to famous battles ...

Famously, the Viking period is usually marked by the raid on Lindisfarne, a small island off the northeastern coast of England, in 793. But evidence shows that decades before this violent encounter, ...

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Vikings from present-day Norway sought to colonize the West in search of land for farming and livestock. Their expansion covered Scotland, Ireland, northeastern England, the Faroe Islands ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Viking age building in northwest England that they believe to be the 'largest discovered and excavated in Britain'. The team dug up a farm in Silloth, Cumbria last ...