793 - monastery on lindisfarne island (ne england) is raided
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“In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of Northumbria. There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by great famine, and on January 8th the ravaging of heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne.”
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 793
Doomsday, as imagined by those under constant threat of Viking raids (remind you of anything?)
793 - monastery on Lindisfarne island (NE England) is raided
840-841 - Norwegians overwintered in British Isles; continue to do so increasinglythrough the 850s
865 - “Great Heathen Army” (Danish) led by Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Guthrum, arrive in East Anglia and set up winter quarters; cross to Northumbriaand capture Jorvik / York
Codex Aureus(mid 8th c gospel book)
added inscription (OE)telling how the book was purchased from a Viking army‘because we were not willingthat these holy books shouldremain any longer in heathen hands’
793 - monastery on Lindisfarne island (NE England) is raided
840-841 - Norwegians overwintered in British Isles; continue to do so increasinglythrough the 850s
865 - “Great Heathen Army” (Danish) led by Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Guthrum, arrive in East Anglia and set up winter quarters; cross to Northumbriaand capture Jorvik / York
876 - AS Chronicle says warriors “proceeded to plough and support themselves”
878- Alfred defeats the Danes at Edington; as a term of the surrender, Alfred insists Guthrum be baptized and serves as his Godfather
793 - monastery on Lindisfarne island (NE England) is raided
840-841 - Norwegians overwintered in British Isles; continue to do so increasinglythrough the 850s
865 - “Great Heathen Army” (Danish) led by Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Guthrum, arrive in East Anglia and set up winter quarters; cross to Northumbriaand capture Jorvik / York
876 - AS Chronicle says warriors “proceeded to plough and support themselves”
878- Alfred defeats the Danes at Edington; as a term of the surrender, Alfred insists Guthrum be baptized and serves as his Godfather
886- Treaty of Alfred the Great and Guthrum creates (what will be known as) theDanelaw
793 - monastery on Lindisfarne island (NE England) is raided
840-841 - Norwegians overwintered in British Isles; continue to do so increasinglythrough the 850s
865 - “Great Heathen Army” (Danish) led by Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Guthrum, arrive in East Anglia and set up winter quarters; cross to
Northumbriaand capture Jorvik / York
876 - AS Chronicle says warriors “proceeded to plough and support themselves”
878- Alfred defeats the Danes at Edington; as a term of the surrender, Alfred insists Guthrum be baptized and serves as his Godfather
886 - Treaty of Alfred the Great and Guthrum creates (what will be known as) theDanelaw
892 – The Great Danish Army (250 ship) encamps in Kent; moment of crisis for the English, but they defend themselves respectably and the
Vikingseventually break up
910 s – Edward the Elder and his sister Aethelflaed conquer Danish territories inthe Midlands and East Anglia (but some Danes allowed to keep their lands)
917- Viking invaders from Ireland take Jorvik
947 - a new wave of Danish Vikings take Jorvik, led by Erik Bloodaxe
954- Erik Bloodaxe driven out of Northumbria, ending Viking rule
980s - raids on England which were likely originating in Ireland
990s – raiding again picks up, attraction of England greater than ever as commercethrives (silver especially) – but raiders often just bought off
994 – Vikings hired as mercenaries by the English king for the first time – to protect against other Vikings
910 s – Edward the Elder and his sister Aethelflaed conquer Danish territories inthe Midlands and East Anglia (but some Danes allowed to keep their lands)
917- Viking invaders from Ireland take Jorvik
947 - a new wave of Danish Vikings take Jorvik, led by Erik Bloodaxe
954- Erik Bloodaxe driven out of Northumbria, ending Viking rule
980s - raids on England which were likely originating in Ireland
990s – raiding again picks up, attraction of England greater than ever as commercethrives (silver especially) – but raiders often just bought off
994 – Vikings hired as mercenaries by the English king for the first time – to protect against other Vikings
1013- after returning several times to collect tribute, Sven Forkbeard conquers England
1013 -1035 - reign of Sven Forkbeard’s son, Cnut the Great of Denmark, Norway,part of Sweden and England
1042 - English king of England again, Edward the Confessor; Norwegians who had settled all over England rebel in support of Magnus (the newNorwegian king) (but they fail)
1042 - English king of England again, Edward the Confessor; Norwegians who had settled all over England rebel in support of Magnus (the newNorwegian king) and then his uncle Harold Hardrada (but they fail)
1066- Edward the Confessor dies, Harold Godwinson takes over English throne;Harald Hardrada invades (with the help of HG’s brother) but isdefeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge= the end of the Viking era in England … ?
3 weeks later, Battle of Hastings puts William the Conqueror andthe Normans in control of England (Normandy had been settled by Vikings)
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