There are more reports of Viking fleets in the Irish Sea from 914 onwards.

Irish, it remained largely under Viking control until the Norman invasion of Ireland was launched from Wales in 1169.

Robinson, along with hundreds of thousands of other Irish people, clashed with Dublin Corporation when it planned to build its new administrative headquarters on Wood Quay, one of Europe's best preserved Viking sites.

Until recently the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic Sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.

The Irish became accustomed to the Viking presence.

After this interaction, the Irish experienced Viking forces for about 40 years.

Irish and Viking literature depict the Battle of Clontarf as a gathering of this world and the supernatural.

Until recently, the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.

* Grímur Kamban, a Norwegian or Norwegian / Irish Viking who around 825 was, according to the Færeyinga Saga, the first Nordic settler in the Faeroes.

* April 23 – Battle of Clontarf: Gaelic Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland, ending their power there but losing Brian in the battle.

In 870 an army led by the Viking chiefs known in Irish as Amlaíb Conung and Ímar laid siege to Alt Clut, a siege which lasted some four months and led to the destruction of the citadel and the taking of a very large number of captives.

The popular image of Brian — the ruler who managed to unify the regional leaders of Ireland so as to free the land from a ' Danish ' ( Viking ) occupation — originates from the powerful influence of a work of 12th century propaganda, Cogadh Gaedhil re Gallaibh ( The War of the Irish with the Foreigners ) in which Brian takes the leading role.

Brian immediately imprisoned Gormlaith, and went on a series of raids around Dublin in order to tie down any Irish who would attempt to join the Viking forces.

Amlaíb's father Sitriuc first appears in the record in 917 when he seized Dublin, a settlement which had probably been under the control of an Irish king since the expulsion of the previous Viking rulers in 902.

For about three hundred years it was a Viking town, a city state, largely independent and owing only token dues to the Irish kings of Leinster.

The Irish National Heritage Park includes various recreations spanning over 9000 years of Irish History, allowing the visitor to wander around recreations of historic Irish dwelling including crannogs, Viking houses and Norman forts.

Various named Viking leaders, who were probably based in Scotland, appear in the Irish annals: Soxulfr in 837, Turges in 845 and Hákon in 847.

Another early reference to the Norse presence in the Irish records is that there was a king of " Viking Scotland " whose heir, Thórir, took an army to Ireland in 848.

An 11th-century cross slab decorated with Irish and Ringerike Viking art found on Islay was found in 1838.

The Romano-British populations of Wales, the Westcountry, and Cumbria experienced a degree of autonomy from Saxon influence, represented by distinct linguistic, liturgical and architectural traditions, having much in common with the Irish and Breton cultures across the Celtic Sea, and allying themselves with the Viking invaders.

* Christansen, Reidar T. The Vikings and Viking Wars in Irish and Gaelic Tradition ( Oslo, 1931 )

Nevertheless, the Irish patronimics Ó hUiginn and Mac Uiginn ( anglicized O ' Higgins and Maguigan ) could bring a key for the meaning " Meadow of a man called Viking ".

Similar small skirmishes with independent Viking raiders would have occurred for much of the period as they had for decades.

The system threatened Viking routes and communications making it far more dangerous for the Viking raiders.

If under the existing system he could not assemble forces quickly enough to intercept mobile Viking raiders, the obvious answer was to have a standing field force.

He was captured by Viking raiders in 1011 and killed by them the following year after refusing to allow himself to be ransomed.

Following a Viking raid in 994, a peace treaty was agreed with one of the raiders, Olaf Tryggvason.

In 877, shortly after building a new church for the Culdees at St Andrews, Causantín was captured and executed ( or perhaps killed in battle ) after defending against Viking raiders.

Under the Carolingians, the kingdom was ravaged by Viking raiders.

European countries with a weak system of government would be unable to organize a suitable response would naturally suffer the most to Viking raiders.

Viking raiders always had the option to fallback in the face of a superior force or stubborn defence and then reappear to attack other locations or retreat to their bases in what is now Sweden, Denmark, Norway and their Atlantic colonies.

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne, the monastery that held Saint Cuthbert ’ s relics.

The idea would then be that Vikings originally was a term for the peoples of this area, and secondarily assumed the meaning ' pirates, sea raiders ' because these peoples played a prominent role in the Viking raids.

In the 300 years from the late 8th century, when contemporary chroniclers first commented on the appearance of Viking raiders, to the end of the 11th century, Scandinavia underwent profound cultural changes.

In 991, the Battle of Maldon between Viking raiders and the inhabitants of the town of Maldon in Essex, England was commemorated with a poem of the same name.

Descended from Viking raiders, he had been Duke of Normandy since 1035 under the title of William II.

* March 28 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.

The same year, Viking raiders attack the region and burn the mosques of Sevilla and Algesiras, they also sack the western coasts of Spain ( known as al-Sharq al-Andalus ) and the Balearic Islands.

* King Aethelred of England pays tribute to Viking raiders ( Danegeld ).

This invasion, as well as an incursion of Viking raiders, forced Otto III to led his army against the invaders in 992, during which he would suffer a crushing defeat.

* Last Viking raid on the Kingdom of England ; unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders.

Wales was now coming under increasing attack by Viking raiders, particularly Danish raids in the period between 950 and 1000.

Charles, suffering what is believed to be epilepsy, could not secure the kingdom against Viking raiders, and after buying their withdrawal from Paris in 886 was perceived by the court as being cowardly and incompetent.

Folklore holds that lutefisk originated during the Viking pillages of Ireland, when St. Patrick sent men to feed spoiled fish to the Viking raiders.