After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ...
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How the Vikings Defeated the Anglo-Saxons
In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we examine why the Anglo-Saxons consistently fell to the invading Vikings. Disunity among Saxon kingdoms, poor coordination, and ...
A History of the English Language by NF Blake (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996). An accessible and modern discussion of the growth of English, written by an eminent historical linguist. The Concise Oxford ...
Tens of thousands of Vikings flowed into northern England beginning in the late 9th century, first as an invading army and then as a wave of migrants. A 10th-century illustration depicts a Viking ...
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