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Map Code: Ax01878Focusing on key events, including the sack of Lindisfarne in 793 and the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, medieval history expert John Haywood recounts the saga of the Viking Age, from the creation of the world through to the dwindling years of halfhearted. Throughout the Viking Age – which started in 793 AD with the raid on Lindisfarne Monastery and ended app. 1100 AD – Scandinavian immigrants had flocked to the British Isles where they had conquered territory to live on. Ireland was at that time not a united country, it comprised of some 200 tribal kingdoms and the Vikings found it easy to.
Between c. 780–814 the British Isles were beset by raids, targeted by bands of Vikings, who radiated out from Denmark and Norway. Their raids began with coastal settlements in Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria and the Gaelic Irish kingdoms. According to Anglo-Saxon histories, the first ‘Northmen’ landed at Portland, Wessex, c. 789, in fast and efficient long ships, and ‘sought out the lands of the English race’. This raid was probably opportunistic, unlike the later raid on Lindisfarne monastery in 793. In a carefully orchestrated attack, Viking raiders plundered the Lindisfarne church of St Cuthbert, ‘a place more sacred than any in Britain’, and slaughtered its occupants. This sent shock waves throughout Christian Europe, with many of the devout believing that the Viking raids prefigured Doomsday. The Vikings did not restrict their raiding to Britain; they started raiding the west coast of France in the 790s and in 814, they plundered a monastery 50 miles (80 km) west of Nantes, while travelling southwards towards the Bay of Biscay.
The Roman departure from the British Isles was partly due to the invasion of Europe and the Roman Empire by the Huns (372 AD - 453 AD). Attila's hordes were also responsible for the dispersal of many Teutonic tribes. Among these were the people who would populate Scandinavia: the Norse (Norwegian) Vikings and the Danish Vikings and the Swedes.
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