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The Battle of Basing was a victory of a Viking army over the West Saxons at the royal estate of Basing in Hampshire on about 22 January 871. [1]In late December 870 the Vikings invaded Wessex and occupied Reading.
Old Basing was first settled in the sixth century by a proto-Anglo-Saxon tribe known as the Basingas.In the ninth century it was a royal estate and it was the site of the Battle of Basing on or about 22 January 871 AD, when a Viking army defeated King Æthelred of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great. [4]
Settlement patterns suggest the existence of a town at Basingstoke attached to the nearby oppidum of Winklebury prior to the Roman conquest of Britain. [2] In the early Roman era it was the nearest town to Calleva Atrebatum, lay between two roads leading to Venta Belgarum and Noviomagus Reginorum and was populated predominantly by the Atrebates.
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Jorvik Viking Festival York, England: Viking town of "Jorvik" in 948 AD 1984 At the site of old Viking settlement of Jorvik mid-January and mid-February 40,000 (2011 season) [37] Viking Fest: Tewkesbury Medieval Festival: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England: 1984 [38] Recreates 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury: Second full weekend in July [39]
Up Helly Aa (/ ˌ ʌ p h ɛ l i ˈ ɑː / UP-hel-ee-AH; [1] [2] literally "Up Holy [Day] All") is a type of fire festival held annually from January to March in various communities in Shetland, Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season.
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Viking armies captured York, the major city in the Kingdom of Northumbria, in 866. [35] Counterattacks concluded in a decisive defeat for Anglo-Saxon forces at York on 21 March 867, and the deaths of Northumbrian leaders Ælla and Osberht. Other Anglo-Saxon kings began to capitulate to the Viking demands and surrendered land to Viking settlers ...