Today anyone who is remotely interested in the Viking Age probably saw their fair share of posts regarding Leif Erikson. It is today, October 9th, that Americans of Norse descent proudly proclaim that the New World was not discovered by Christopher Columbus, but by Leif Erikson around 500 years previously. Leif Erikson was the sonContinue reading “Well, actually, Leif Erikson discovered America…”
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787 AD: The First Viking Raid
A.D. 787. This year King Bertric took Edburga the daughter of Offa to wife. And in his days came first three ships of the Northmen from the land of robbers. The reve (30) then rode thereto, and would drive them to the king’s town; for he knew not what they were; and there was heContinue reading “787 AD: The First Viking Raid”
Of the North 