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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 Viking king of Northumbria, Halfdan Ragnarrson (Old English: Healfdene)—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army)—surrendered his lands to a second wave of Viking invaders in 876. In the next four years, Vikings gained further land in the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia as well ...
Repeated Viking assaults on religious centres were one reason for the decrease in production of manuscripts and communal monastic culture. [91] After 867, Northumbria came under control of the Scandinavian forces, and there was an influx of Scandinavian immigrants. [92] Their religion was pagan and had a rich mythology.
Ragnall ua Ímair (Old Norse: Rǫgnvaldr [ˈrɔɣnˌwɑldz̠], died 921) or Rægnald was a Viking [nb 1] leader who ruled Northumbria and the Isle of Man in the early 10th century. He was a grandson of Ímar and a member of the Uí Ímair .
Son of Waltheof. After 1006 he was ealdorman of Northumbria, i.e. he governed southern Northumbria as an ealdorman, regional governor, of the English king, in addition to rulership of Bamburgh. [14] Eadwulf III Cudel: fl. c. 1020 comes: Son of Waltheof. Known and titled only in post-Conquest sources. [15] Ealdred (II) fl. c. 1030 comes: Son of ...
A map of the Eastern Settlement on Greenland, covering approximately the modern municipality of Kujalleq. Eiriksfjord (Erik's fjord) and his farm Brattahlíð are shown, as is the location of the bishopric at Gardar. According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Norsemen from Iceland first settled Greenland in the 980s. There is no special reason to ...
In York, Viking leaders established a puppet king named Ecgberht, [13] who remained until 872, when a revolt drove him into exile in Mercia. Halfdan Ragnarsson of the Vikings ended the revolt in 876 and directly occupied York and the rest of Deira (south-east Northumbria), partitioning it among his followers. [ 13 ]
Ragnall Guthfrithson (Old Norse: Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðsson [ˈrɔɣnˌwɑldz̠ ˈɡuðˌrøðsˌson]; Old Irish: Ragnall mac Gofraid) was a Viking [nb 1] leader who ruled Viking Yorkshire in the 10th century. He was the son of Gofraid ua Ímair and great-grandson of Ímar, making him one of the Uí Ímair.