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Showing posts with label Northmen. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Northmen. Show all posts

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Did the Viking Age Really Start on 8 June 793 AD?

Ancient Origins BY THORNEWS “Never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race (…). The hea...

Monday, November 13, 2017

Who Were These Vikings Buried Sitting Upright?

Ancient Origins BY THORNEWS Accidentally, in 1963 a burial ground with 24 graves deep inside the bay of Sandvika on the eastern side...

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons

History Extra This detail from the side of a sledge in a ninth-century Viking burial shows two men fighting. In the 860s and 870s, the...

Monday, April 11, 2016

How the Vikings ruled the waves

History Extra A depiction of Cnut the Great in a 14th-century genealogical roll of the kings and queens of England. Was Roskilde 6 bu...

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

History Trivia - Lady Anne Boleyn made Marchioness of Pembroke

September 1 891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France. 1339 The Hundred Years' War officially began when King Edward III of E...

Monday, September 1, 2014

History Trivia - Lady Anne Boleyn made Marchioness of Pembroke

Sept 1 891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France. 1339 The Hundred Years' War officially began when King Edward III of Engla...

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