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Lindisfarme is raided. The vicious Vikings raid, taking food, all kinds of gems and ores, and even the monks
are taken to be slaves, working for the Vikings. -
The Vikings notice that the raid was very easy {and very boooring}. So they brung their friends over. They called them the GREAT HEAFTAN ARMY. -
The vicious Vikings invade York, the old village in Anglo Saxon Britain. -
Vikings from all over Scandinavia had been raiding the British Isles for more than half a century before the birth of the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great, the sovereign of the West Saxon kingdom of Wessex. The arrival of a Danish “great army” in East Anglia in 865, however, marked the start of a new, more concerted phase of Viking attacks on Britain. He won! -
The treaty not only acknowledged Guthrum as the king of the East Angles but also delineated a territorial boundary known as Danelaw, which established a region under Viking control in England. This marked the first time the Vikings were granted a recognized and organized presence within the kingdom. -
Eric bloodaxe dies and there is no more viking rule.