The Viking Age was relatively short, but it has left its distinctive mark on the history. The warriors, raiders, pirates, seafarers, and traders from Scandinavia influenced the fate of more regions ...

Meanwhile, the chieftains Guthrum, Oscetel and Anwend led their warriors to East Anglia and then into Wessex, the only one of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to hold off the Vikings. Alfred the ...

The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD is the second DVD in this sensational new series The Dark Ages which delves into a wartorn and obscure period of Britains past to focus on some of the pivotal ...

In Viking times, a king had to be strong to fight ... chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw. Duke William of Normandy and ...

The Viking invasions eventually smashed the state system of the English. Wessex survived and, in the reign of King Alfred (d. AD 899) a campaign began to bring the whole of England under the rule ...

In Viking times, a king had to be strong to fight ... chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw. Duke William of Normandy and ...