The Fury of the Northmen: 793-878 AD (28 posts)

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From the sack of Lidesfarne to Alfred the Great's watershed treaty with Guthorm, these were the years of the great Viking raids on Europe.
Viking halls in Borre and the distribution of power in Viking Norway (* Svava Sigurdsson, Dec 11, 2007 - 15:49 )
Dig unearths part of Norwich's Viking times (* Svava Sigurdsson, Oct 5, 2007 - 04:32 )
Irish archaeologists find 9th century Viking body (* Favonius Cornelius, Aug 20, 2004 - 23:40 )

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Scandinavian England 866 - 954 AD (1 posts)

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The Danelaw and the Viking Kingdom of York 866 - 954 AD
Liverpool's Viking past (* Svava Sigurdsson, Dec 3, 2007 - 12:48 )

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Beyond the World's Edge: Viking Iceland, Greenland and America (30 posts)

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The Vikings' martime technology carried them to settle in the Shetlands, Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland and then on to North America.
Abandonment of Greenland (* Svava Sigurdsson, Dec 3, 2007 - 12:49 )
Viking-era cabin discovered in Iceland's West Fjords (* Svava Sigurdsson, Sep 30, 2007 - 07:14 )
The Vikings and the Little Ice Age (* Svava Sigurdsson, Sep 1, 2007 - 18:10 )

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Gesta Normanorum: The Norman Heirs of the Vikings (86 posts)

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The descendants of Vikings who settled in northern France, the Normans were to take the spirit of their Scandinavian ancestors far and wide.
"Hastings", Jeff city style (* MerlintheMad Knudsson, Nov 17, 2005 - 17:49 )
Getting myself ready for battle (* MerlintheMad Knudsson, Jul 6, 2005 - 20:10 )
Are you (as nifty as) William the Conqueror? (* MerlintheMad Knudsson, Mar 24, 2005 - 21:23 )

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The Road to Miklagard: The Vikings in the East (20 posts)

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The Swedish Vikings or "Rus" sailed, raided and traded on the great rivers of eastern Europe and founded a nation named after them - Russia. From there they sailed to serve in Constantinople - which they called "Miklagard", the Great City.
About those pants... (* lilja Harfagri, Jan 12, 2005 - 06:49 )
I can highly recommend.... (* MerlintheMad Knudsson, Mar 31, 2004 - 22:03 )
Fiction Books Dealing With Harald Hardrada When He Was in Byzantium (* Hypatia Didius, Mar 31, 2004 - 00:44 )

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Gold in the North: Migration Era Scandinavia (9 posts)

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While the southern Germanic tribes were on the move and the Roman Empire was collapsing, the Pre-Viking North Germanic peoples of Scandinavia were also in turmoil.
A True Viking Dog (* lilja Harfagri, Oct 29, 2004 - 12:04 )
Connections.... (* MerlintheMad Knudsson, Feb 3, 2004 - 16:48 )
William connection (* Regnar Sigurdsson, Feb 2, 2004 - 17:38 )

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Last of the Vikings: Canute and Hardrada 1000-1066 AD (62 posts)

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With their conversion to Christianity, the Viking peoples were drawn more and more into the orbit of medieval European Christendom. But not before they made their indelible mark on the history of England.
Slavic Vikings (* Rafalius Egilsson, Sep 27, 2004 - 16:46 )
September 25, 1066: The Battle of Stamford Bridge and Harald Hardrada Pictures (* Hypatia Didius, Sep 25, 2004 - 01:07 )
Harald Hardrada and the Solid Gold Ingot (* Hypatia Didius, Apr 24, 2004 - 01:14 )

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