Abstract
In June 793 a band of heathen Norsemen landed on the east coast of England and sacked the monastery at Lindisfarne. The Vikings who were to influence, and even dominate, life in Europe for the next two hundred and fifty years, had made their first raid on Britain. Who were these previously little-known Norsemen? Why did they suddenly become so important? What accounts for their large-scale raids on Britain?
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Further Reading
P.G. Foote and D.M. Wilson, The Viking Achievement: The Society and Culture of Early Scandinavia (London, 1970);
J. Graham-Campbell and D. Kidd, The Vikings (London, 1980);
R. Hodges, Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade AD600–1000 (London, 1982);
M. Lombard, The Golden Age of Islam, North-Holland Medieval Translations, vol. 2 (Amsterdam, Oxford and New York, 1975);
K. Randsborg, The Viking Age in Denmark: The Formation of a State (London and New York, 1980);
P.H. Sawyer, Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD700–1100 (London and New York, 1982).
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Randsborg, K. (1984). The Viking Nation. In: Smith, L.M. (eds) The Making of Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17650-2_8
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