The first recorded Viking raid on Ireland was in AD795. This raid, on the monastery at Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast, was just the beginning of many years of Viking attacks on Christian ...

In the hit series Vikings, fans witnessed the friendship between Ragnar Lothbrok and Athelstan (George Blagden), a Saxon monk he encountered during his first raid to the west, in Northumbria ...

"The blue water, smitten by many oars, might be seen foaming far and wide" wrote a medieval monk who watched a Viking fleet set sail. Above: Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the ...

Brendan, an Irish monk who, according to folklore ... who met with either Dorset or Beothuk natives in Labrador. The Vikings were marauders, feared and loathed in Europe before they sailed ...

Gildas, a British monk, (circa 504-570 AD) wrote that the Angles and Saxons received a great setback at Mount Badon, possibly somewhere in south west Britain, where they were defeated by the Britons.