The Vikings were, among other things, Nordic raiders, plunderers and slaughterers intent on conquering England ... of a man found in York could rewrite history altogether. York is famous for ...
Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...
A Roman fortress, then a Viking stronghold, followed by a Medieval wool-trading center, then an Industrial railway hub, and ...
When the Vikings first attacked Lindisfarne in Northumberland in 793 AD, it was to start a major upheaval that brought bloodshed, a new language and eventually the creation of England. The ...
In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...