Ethelred the Unready was thought of as a weak king of England in the 11th century. Ethelred gave the Vikings gold and land to stop them invading. This money was called Danegeld. But it didn’t ...

Ethelred the Unready was thought of as a weak king of England in the 11th century. Ethelred gave the Vikings gold and land to stop them invading. This money was called Danegeld. But it didn’t ...

The Viking era lasted nearly three centuries (late 8th century to late 11th century ... Skilled navigators, the Vikings also ventured as far as the Iberian Peninsula. In 844, they ravaged Seville ...

You may think of Vikings as warriors raiding and ransacking ... The Viking age commonly spans the 8th century to the 11th ...

Swift and deadly, the Vikings dominated the seas of northern Europe from the late eighth century to the 11th. Sails were adopted in Scandinavia by approximately the seventh century. Only fragments ...