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[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 ...
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 ...
Gesta Danorum (book 10), Styrbjarnar þáttr Svíakappa and Eyrbyggja saga relate that in the early 980s, the exiled Swedish prince Styrbjörn the Strong brought the Jomsvikings to a devastating defeat against Styrbjörn's uncle King Eric the Victorious at the Battle of the Fýrisvellir, Uppsala, in 984 or 985, while trying to take the crown of ...
The siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia.The Viking forces were led by a Norse chieftain named "Reginherus", or Ragnar, who tentatively has been identified with the legendary saga character Ragnar Lodbrok.
Snorri provides a euhemeristic account, in which he describes the Norse god Odin and some other Norse gods, the Æsir, as having been real people who emigrated from the area around the river Don to Scandinavia at the time of the Roman expansion into their old homeland. In Scandinavia, Snorri writes, they so impressed the native population that ...
Flateyjarbók is the largest medieval Icelandic manuscript, comprising 225 written and illustrated vellum leaves. It contains mostly sagas of the Norse kings as found in the Heimskringla, specifically the sagas about Olaf Tryggvason, St. Olaf, Sverre, Hákon the Old, Magnus the Good, and Harald Hardrada.
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 Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia is an archaeological study of old Norse religion in Late Iron Age-Scandinavia. It was written by the English archaeologist Neil Price, then a professor at the University of Aberdeen, and first published by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University in 2002.