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If you visit the Jorvik Museum in York the impression that the curators are determined to give you is that the Vikings were peaceful and homely folk, who liked nothing better in an evening than to pull up a roaring fire, settle back and toast crumpets. Forget all that stuff about horned helmets, rape and pillage, they say.
It's not the impression that I get, I have to say. From the moment the Danes arrived off the south coast of England in 789 and a shopping trip turned ugly, the English had to brace themselves for almost two centuries of threatening knocks on the door.See the full content of this document
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Probably the Heaviest Tax in the World
What began as lightning raids, a collection of loot and then back onto the boats, had by the 850s turned into something more long- term. Ivar the Bo...
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