Viking

Places, people or events associated with the Vikings, including Danes and Norse, and the time of the Viking attacks in Britain.

Stamford Bridge – the other battle in 1066

Stamford Bridge, Nicolai Arbo

One of the most significant battles in British history took place on 25th September 1066.  It was fought at Stamford Bridge, a village in the north of England on the River Derwent, about 7 miles east of York.  Ah, you say – but wasn’t The Battle at Hastings, in the deep south, on 14th October […]

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1066 – so what?

Battlefield, Hastings, 1066

Every action has a reaction, but there are some events that so obviously and profoundly shape the future.  One of these was the Battle of Hastings on 14th October 1066*, when heroic Harold, King of England, got beat by wicked William, Duke of Normandy.  Of course, nothing’s that simple – but one thing is for

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Newsflash – Vikings murder defenceless monks

Viking, longships

Terrible portents appeared over Northumbria and miserably frightened the inhabitants: there were exceptional flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine followed these signs; and a little after that, in the same year on 8 June, the harrying of the heathen miserably destroyed God’s church in Lindisfarne by

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