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The Vikings
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When did the Vikings arrive?
• The Vikings arrived in England about 1,200 years ago
• They stayed for 300 years.
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A Timeline to show where the Vikings fit into British history
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Where did the Vikings come from?
• The Viking people came from the three countries of Scandinavia
• Denmark • Norway • Sweden.
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Who were the Vikings?
• They were mostly farmers, but some worked as craftsmen or traders.
• Many Vikings were great travellers and sailed all over Europe and the north Atlantic Ocean in their longships.
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• Some went as fierce pirate raiders.• They stole treasure and attacked local people. • But most Vikings who sailed overseas were
simply searching for better land for their farms.
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• The name 'Viking' comes from a language which is called 'Old Norse'.
• It means 'a pirate raid'.
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Some significant
events of the Viking Age.
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793 AD• In the year 793 Viking pirate
raiders sailed across the North Sea to a Christian monastary at Lindisfarne in north-east England. .
• They stole its treasures, murdered the monks and terrified everyone.
• This was followed by other violent 'Viking raids' all over Britain.
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865 AD
• In 865 a 'Great Army' of Danish Vikings led by Ivor the Boneless, invaded England.
• The Vikings conquered all of northern, central and eastern England, and seized much of the land for their own farms.
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867 AD
• In 867 the Vikings attacked captured York. .
• During the same period, they sailed to northern and western Scotland. ..
• They also settled in the Isle of Man, and parts of Wales .
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871 AD
• The only part of England to hold out against the Vikings was Wessex.
• In 871 Alfred the Great became King of Wessex .
• He had to fight many battles to stop the Vikings taking over Wessex.
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878- 886 AD
• In 878 the Vikings were defeated by Alfred the Great at Eddington
• The leader of the Vikings was called Guthrum.
• In 886 Alfred drew up a treaty allowing the Vikings to live in the Danelaw .
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899 AD
• In 899 Alfred died. .• He was the only Saxon
King to stop the Vikings invading all of England. .
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950 AD
• The last Viking king of York, was Eirik Bloodaxe
• He was killed at the battle of Stainmore in 954 .
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980 AD
• A Viking man called Bjarni Herjolfsson discovered America by accident in the year 985.
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991 AD
• In 991 the English were defeated at the battle of Malden .
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1001 AD
• A few years later, in 1001, Leif Eriksson 'the Lucky' sailed to America to take a proper look at it. .
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1016 AD
• Edmund became king.
• Canute defeated Edmund
• ..Edmund died and Canute became king.
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1035 AD
• King Canute ruled the whole of England in peace until 1035 when he died.
• Harald became king.• In 1040 Canute’s son
Harthacanute became King..
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1042 AD
• Harthacanute died suddenly in 1042.• Edward the Confessor was chosen as king of
England.
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1066 AD
• In 1066 Harold ll claimed the throne.• He was killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge
the same year .• This was the end of the Viking Age in England. .