Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...
Leading the West Saxon forces was King Æthelred, and his younger brother, the future Alfred the Great. That year, the Danes ...
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Björn Ironside Was A Brave Viking Hero In Scandinavian Legend — But Did He Really Exist?Several medieval chronicles tell of Björn Ironside, a Viking king who ruled in Sweden and Norway in the ninth century C.E., ...
After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...
Cnut the Great, also known as Canute or Knut Sveinsson (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki; died 12 November 1035) was a Viking king of England, Denmark and Norway. His successes as a statesman ...
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.
Whether the Vikings saw the opportunity to conquer ... Their leader was Sweyn Forkbeard, whose son was later King of England. 5. The population of Ireland was only 500,000 at the time and there ...
After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...
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