Viking activity in northern Britain appears to have reached a peak during Causantín's reign.

Professor Rudolf Simek believes that “ it is not a coincidence if the early Viking activity occurred during the reign of Charlemagne ”.

The contemporary documentary sources upon which modern knowledge is based therefore consist mostly of texts written in Christian and Islamic communities overseas, that had often been negatively affected by Viking activity.

Professor Rudolf Simek confirms that " it is not a coincidence if the early Viking activity occurred during the reign of Charlemagne ".

As a prince of Denmark, Cnut won the throne of England in 1016 in the wake of centuries of Viking activity in northwestern Europe.

Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do priests and pilgrims coming from all over Europe to St. Olaf's grave in Trondheim.

Since the East was rich and well-defended, Viking activity there centered mainly around peaceful trade instead of pillage like in Western Europe.

This loch was an important site for maritime activity for many centuries, spanning the Viking and later periods of Scottish clan rule.

Evidence of Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Viking activity has been discovered in Ashton-under-Lyne and its surrounding area.

After increased Viking activity in the later half of the 9th century, nearly all emporia were either absorbed into better-defended settlements nearby or abandoned.

However, as a term it is on a par with Viking, as it describes an activity ( raiding, piracy ) and its proponents, not their actual ethnic affiliations.

As war was the most prestigious activity in Viking Age Scandinavia, beautifully finished weapons were an important way for a warrior to display his wealth and status.

Historically a part of Lancashire, Royton and its surroundings have provided evidence of ancient British, Roman and Viking activity in the area.

During one period in 1985 that was characterized by exceptionally heavy Soviet Navy submarine activity off the United States, several U. S. Navy S-3 Viking aircraft, normally a carrier-based ASW platform, were also temporarily deployed to Bermuda from their home base of the former NAS Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida, in order to augment the forward deployed P-3 squadron.

However, this did not lead to the revival of urban life ; in fact, urban activity further declined in the Carolingian era as a result of civil war, Arab raids, and Viking invasions.

The Viking Queen is a 1967 Hammer Films adventure film set in ancient Britain, in which the role of Queen Salina is based upon the historical figure of Boudica.

Wars with the Viking kings in Britain and Ireland continued during Donald's reign and he was probably killed fighting yet more Vikings at Dunnottar in the Mearns in 900.

The first recorded Viking attack in Britain was in 793 at Lindisfarne monastery as given by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

* 927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.

According to Viking lore, Canute the Great used 1, 400 in Norway in 1028, and William the Conqueror used about 600 for the invasion of Britain in 1066 in the post Viking period.

The 19th century saw a surge of interest in Germanic paganism with the Viking revival in Victorian Britain and Scandinavia.

The Viking Age brought great changes in Britain and Ireland, no less in Scotland than elsewhere.

Pioneering scholarly works on the Viking Age began to reach a small readership in Britain.

Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A. D. 1014.

This period of Viking expansion – known as the Viking Age – forms a major part of the medieval history of Scandinavia, Great Britain, Ireland and the rest of Medieval Europe.

Pioneering 19th-century scholarly editions of the Viking Age began to reach a small readership in Britain, archaeologists began to dig up Britain's Viking past, and linguistic enthusiasts started to identify the Viking-Age origins for rural idioms and proverbs.

* Downham, Clare, Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to AD 1014.

Britain experienced a great influx of Viking peoples in the 9th century as the Viking Age continued from the previous century.

* Viking hoard reveals its story, and a reminder of the often overlooked first King of all of Britain, Athelstan.

The battle has traditionally been presented as symbolising the end of the Viking Age, although in fact major Scandinavian campaigns in Britain and Ireland occurred in the following decades, notably those of King Sweyn Estrithson of Denmark in 1069 – 70 and King Magnus Barefoot of Norway in 1098 and 1102 – 03.

After a period of Viking control, it passed to the Cerdic dynasty, a period during which it gained prominence in terms of religious importance in Great Britain.

* Port an Eilean Mhòir-The only Viking burial as of yet discovered in mainland Britain, the mound was found in 2006 and excavated in 2011

* Downham, Clare ( 2007 ) Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr to A. D. 1014.

He led both the Roman invasion of Britain and the Viking invasion of Ireland.

During the second quarter of the century the frequency and size of raids increased and the first permanent Viking settlements ( called longphorts in Ireland ) appeared.

For example, the Swedish Viking and Freja satellites, with equipment from IRF on board, have greatly increased our knowledge of the auroral processes in the Earth ’ s magnetosphere, as have the micro-satellites Astrid 1 and 2, launched in 1995 and 1998.

However, ironically, it was during the period that slavery was disappearing across most of western Europe that it was reaching its zenith in Ireland and Scotland ; during the Viking invasions and the subsequent warring between Scandinavians and the native Irish the number of captives taken as slaves drastically increased.

In the 9th and 11th century plain silver became a popular medium in Anglo-Saxon England, probably because of the increased amount in circulation due to Viking trading and raiding, and it was during this time a number of magnificent silver penannular brooches were created in Ireland.

His father was said to have been a Dane who came to England in 865, together with the Viking army of Ubbe and Ivar, and presumably settled in East Anglia.

Viking forces first raided East Anglia in 865 and it remained under Scandinavian control until 917 when the West Saxons re-conquered East Anglia.

Alfred's burh system posed such a formidable challenge against Viking attack that when the Vikings returned in 892 and successfully stormed a half-made, poorly garrisoned fortress up the Lympne estuary in Kent, the Anglo-Saxons were able to limit their penetration to the outer frontiers of Wessex and Mercia.

Manuscript production in England dropped off precipitously around the 860s when the Viking invasions began in earnest, not to be revived until the end of the century.

" It is unknown when Alfred launched this programme, but it may have been during the 880s when Wessex was enjoying a respite from Viking attacks.

King Æthelstan was successful in securing Constantine's submission in 927 and 934, but the two again fought when Constantine, allied with the Strathclyde Britons and the Viking king of Dublin, invaded Æthelstan's kingdom in 937, only to be defeated at the great battle of Brunanburh.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

The first navy of the Caliph of Córdoba or Emir was built after the humiliating Viking ascent of the Guadalquivir in 844 when they sacked Seville.

A Viking longship is burnt during Edinburgh's annual Hogmanay celebrations ( though Edinburgh has no historical connection with the Norse invaders ). When Ne ' erday falls on a Sunday, 3 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Saturday, both 3 and 4 January will be public holidays in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Friday, 4 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland.

According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England, during the Viking occupation: “ The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the ‘ thing ’ to hear legal argument.

However, when they were finally launched to Mars, the Viking probes still searched ( unsuccessfully ) for extant life there.

The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June ; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes " vi id Ianr, presumably an error for vi id Iun ( June 8 ) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne ( p. 505 ), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids.

But when a Viking space probe sends back the picture of an alien creature swinging a stick, a joint US / USSR mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.

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.

Although the concept of offering hospitality to the traveler dates back to early cultures ( notably ancient Greece: xenia and Viking Age Scandinavia ), the idea of applying it specifically to Esperanto speakers began in 1966 in Argentina when Ruben Feldman-Gonzalez started the Programo Pasporto.

A planned hot-air balloon race fizzled when the balloon marked NFL and carrying a " Viking " lifted off prematurely, failed to gain altitude, and crashed into the stands in the end zone.

This game was also noted for a controversial procedure penalty during one Rams ' drive when Los Angeles guard Tom Mack was called for a false start near the Viking goal line following Alan Page crossing the line of scrimmage unabated.

In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne, a centre of learning famous across the continent.

The earliest date given for a Viking raid is 787 AD when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to the Isle of Portland in Dorset.

Aided by the Great Heathen Army ( which had already overrun much of England from its base in Jorvik ), Bagsecg's forces, and Halfdan's forces ( through an alliance ), the combined Viking forces raided much of England until 871, when they planned an invasion of Wessex.

The Viking presence dwindled until 1066, when the invading Norsemen lost their final battle with the English at Stamford Bridge.

While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters.

In that case, the word Viking was not originally connected to Scandinavian seafarers but assumed this meaning when the Scandinavians begun to dominate the seas.