The first few months of 793 was a worrying time for the north of England. Great portents of impending disaster were seen ...

Most of what we know about the Viking raiders comes from the tales of the survivors of these raids rather than the Vikings themselves. The survivors tell of ships shaped like dragons, of brutal ...

In 793, Norse raiders stormed the holy island of Lindisfarne - burning, killing, and looting. It wasn’t the first raid on England, but it marked the brutal birth of the Viking Age. US no longer ...