When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

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.

Viking raids in 875 led to the monks fleeing the island with St Cuthbert's bones ( The bones of St Cuthbert are now buried at the Cathedral in Durham ).

As time went on, Viking raids became more sophisticated, with coordinated strikes involving multiple forces and large armies, as the " Great Heathen Army " that ravaged Anglo-Saxon England in the 9th century.

With the growth of centralized authority in the Scandinavian region, Viking raids, always an expression of " private enterprise ", ceased and the raids became pure voyages of conquest.

There was great but sporadic violence from the last decade of the 8th century on England ’ s northern and western shores: Viking raids continued on a small scale across coastal England.

They were offered payment, the Danegeld, which lasted from 1012 to 1066 and stopped Viking raids for almost twenty years.

During the first 40 years, the raids were conducted by small, mobile Viking groups.

The first Viking raids began between 790 and 800 along the coasts of western France.

While many buildings were pillaged, burned, or destroyed by the Viking raids, ecclesiastical sources may have been overly negative as no city was completely destroyed.

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.

A consequence of the available written sources, which may have coloured how we perceive the Viking Age as a historical period, is that we know a lot more of the raids to western Europe than those to the East.

The period from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman conquest of England in 1066 is commonly known as the Viking Age of Scandinavian history.

Egbert's later years saw the beginning of Danish Viking raids on Wessex, which occurred frequently from 835 onwards.

This period of Viking raids on the coasts of Ireland has been named the longphort phase after these particular types of settlements.

Political map of Europe in 843 showing the effect of Viking incursions and raids.

* Danegeld is paid by Æthelred the Unready to prevent Viking raids against England.

During his childhood aliens were the target of Viking raids and invasions under Sweyn Forkbeard and his son, Cnut.

Duke Bernard I of Saxony was heading south for the assembly when Danish Viking raids forced him to return to face the Viking threat.

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

Viking raids along the coast of France and the Netherlands were large-scale.

Other Viking raids into Germany and the Mediterranean were short-lived and had no lasting effect.

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.

As the Viking Age drew to a close, the period known as the Crusades began.

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.

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.

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

Archaeologists began to dig up Britain's Viking past.

It was in the 8th century that Scandinavians began to build ships of war and send them on raiding expeditions to initiate the Viking Age.

A romanticised picture of Vikings as Germanic noble savages began to take root in the 18th century, and this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival.

On 1 July 2007, the reconstructed Viking ship Skuldelev 2, renamed Sea Stallion, began a journey from Roskilde, Denmark to Dublin, Ireland.

In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne.

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.

Following launch using a Titan / Centaur launch vehicle and a 333 day cruise to Mars, the Viking 2 Orbiter began returning global images of Mars prior to orbit insertion.

Written history in the area began about 800 AD, when the Danish Viking settlement of Haithabu was founded.

More jumps were built in Big Bear Lake and the Viking Ski Club of Los Angeles began to use them for competition and events.

The proposed dating in the 9th century coincides with Viking raids on Iona, which began in 794 and eventually dispersed the monks and their holy relics into Ireland and Scotland.

Rolf and Kåre Bjørnsen, Asbjørn Skjærpe and Leif Nicolaysen were other prominent players, while a young Olav Nilsen began his remarkable Viking career in 1959.

To protect the northern coast of the Frankish Empire, Charlemagne began paying Viking chieftains to protect sections of the coast from the Schlei east to the Weser River.

Utopia Planitia ( Latin: " Nowhere Plain ") is the largest recognized impact basin on Mars and in the solar system with an estimated diameter of 3300 km, and is the Martian region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on September 3, 1976.

One suggestion is that these castles were built particularly in order to protect against external attack – the Angevins, it is argued, began to build them to protect against the Viking raids, and the design spread to deal with the attacks along the Slav and Hungarian frontiers.

In the mid-90s, Anselmo began to record for several side projects under the pseudonym Anton Crowley, most notably with Viking Crown.