Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan ...

With England unified under his rule ... In 937, Constantine of the Scots, Owain of Strathclyde, and the Viking king Olaf ...

In our previous video, we covered king Alfred’s surprise victory over the Vikings at Edington in 878. This victory both ...

Multiple peoples have successfully conquered the country in the past, but some campaigns are better known than others.

King of Wessex, resists the Danes, gets whipped, regroups from his marshy redoubt, and unites Wessex to beat the Vikings at the Battle of Edington in 878. England’s origin myth starts here ...

He married his daughter to Olaf Guthfrithsson, the pagan king of Viking Dublin and persuaded Owein of Strathclyde, his relative, to support his cause. In 937 AD they invaded Aethelstan's England.

Wren goes to the Museum of South Australia, which is hosting a hoard of Viking treasure! It’s the first time that the collection has travelled outside of the UK and curators say it’s a good chance for ...

Proclaiming himself king of Norway, he failed repeatedly to conquer Denmark ... and try to winnow out the truth from among them.” Readers with an interest in Vikings, Byzantium, or medieval England ...

Four-part doc on Knut employs 'most advanced' generative AI to reconstruct historical sequences, producer ZED says ...