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2 days ago · The Battle of Maldon (991) The Battle of Maldon, fought in 991, is one of the most famous and well-documented battles of the Viking Age. The battle was prompted by a Viking raid on the Essex coast, which was met by an Anglo-Saxon force led by Byrhtnoth, the Ealdorman of Essex. The Vikings, who were led by Olaf Tryggvason, a Norwegian prince and ...
5 days ago · The year 1066 became synonymous with the Conquest, famously culminating in the Battle of Hastings where King Harold II’s Saxon forces clashed with William’s Normans in a bloody engagement that shifted the destiny of England. Amidst the turmoil of succession and ambition, England was ripe for conquest.
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5 days ago · The date of the first Saxon bridge over the Thames is extremely uncertain, as our chapter on London Bridge will show; but it is almost as certain as history can be that, soon after the Dane Olaf's invasion of England (994) in Ethelred's reign, with 390 piratical ships, when he plundered Staines and Sandwich, a rough wooden bridge was built ...
3 days ago · Here are 10 of the most renowned and influential Vikings from history: 1. Ragnar Lothbrok. Ragnar Lothbrok, or Ragnar "Shaggy-Breeches", was a legendary Viking hero and ruler who achieved semi-mythical status in Old Norse poetry and sagas. According to tradition, Ragnar was the scourge of France and England in the 9th century and the father of ...
4 days ago · Olave's cannot have come into being before the mid 11th century, since the dedicatee, the Norwegian king Olaf Haraldsson, was killed only in 1030; St. Bridget's, however, could well be earlier. The dedication was especially likely to have been favoured by immigrants from Ireland and was used also at West Kirby, in the Scandinavian settlement on ...
5 days ago · Once they were back in England there was a serious disagreement between Drake and Norris, who tried to blame each other. Both were privately punished. The casualties were far greater than with the Spanish Armada. Only 102 ships returned to England with 3,722 men who claimed their pay. Hume states a maximum of 5,000 survivors.
3 days ago · THE DANES. SCARCE was the kingdom of Kent free from the miseries of civil war and intestine squabbles, and the consequence of them, before a new source of evil broke out, which ceased not till it had overwhelmed the whole nation. This was the invasion of the Danes, an antient and numerous people, whom the Saxon Chronicle makes the same with the ...
