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Norse Vikings: Picts Dál Riata: Norwegian Viking victory: Siege of Paris (845) Norse Vikings: Francia: Viking victory. Viking plunder of Paris; Viking raid on Nekor [1] [2] [3] (ca. 859) Norse Vikings: Kingdom of Nekor: Viking victory. Vikings occupied Nekor for 8 days. Great Heathen Army's invasion of England (865–878) Norse Vikings Norse ...
The Scottish–Norwegian War lasted from 1262 to 1266. [3] The conflict arose because of disagreement over the ownership of the Hebrides.The war consisted of mainly skirmishes and feuds between the kings, and the only major battle was the indecisive Battle of Largs.
[14] The Annals of St. Bertin [15] and the Annals of Fulda [16] contain East and West Frankish records (respectively) of Viking attacks, as does Regino of Prum's Chronicle [17] - which was written as a history of the Carolingian Empire in its final years. The Annals of Ulster and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles describe raid activity in Ireland and ...
The Vinland map first came to light in 1957 (three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval text called the Hystoria Tartarorum (usually called in English the Tartar Relation), and was unsuccessfully offered to the British Museum by London book dealer Irving Davis on behalf of a Spanish-Italian ...
The Battle of Largs (2 October 1263) was a battle between the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde near Largs, Scotland.The conflict formed part of the Norwegian expedition against Scotland in 1263, in which Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway attempted to reassert Norwegian sovereignty over the western seaboard of Scotland. [1]
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Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
The Sjörup Runestone in Sjörup, Sweden, is generally associated with the Jomsviking attack on Uppsala, the Battle of the Fýrisvellir. It says:Saxi placed this stone in memory of Ásbjörn Tófi's/Tóki's son, his partner. He did not flee at Uppsala, but slaughtered as long as he had a weapon.