| The people who originated from Scandinavia, which in today's world are the countries of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden were called Norsemen. |
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| Alfred's dynasty, which had survived Danes, Norsemen, and Danes again, had succumbed at last to foreign invasion. |
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| The reader will be relieved to know that I am not going to run on about the Norsemen, the Anglo-Normans and the Anglo-Saxons. |
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| With the arrival of the Norsemen wooden galleys and birlinns became the common transport and these stayed in use until the Jacobite rebellion. |
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| At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale. |
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| The Norsemen, for example, had by AD 1100 established the first Atlantic maritime empire that linked Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, and North America. |
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| In the ninth century, when Paris was invaded by the Norsemen, those great pillagers of tombs, her relics were taken for safety some fifteen miles away. |
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| Large-scale migrations of Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, and Norsemen, and substantial movements between Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, make estimates very hazardous. |
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| The evergreen and the yule log originated from the Norsemen. |
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| A sign of peaceful relations between the indigenous peoples and the Norsemen is noted here. |
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| Norsemen began settling in Normandy, and from 919 Magyars invaded repeatedly. |
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| In exchange for the land, the Norsemen under Rollo were expected to provide protection along the coast against further Viking invaders. |
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| Norsemen first began raiding in what became Normandy in the late 8th century. |
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| In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne. |
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| Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century, and Inuit peoples arrived in the 13th century. |
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| Towards the end of the 9th century, the Norsemen or Vikings began raiding the area. |
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| It is the period of history when Scandinavian Norsemen explored Europe by its seas and rivers for trade, raids, colonisation and conquest. |
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| The Viking presence dwindled until 1066, when the invading Norsemen lost their final battle with the English at Stamford Bridge. |
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| There are indications of a whaling industry there dating to the ninth century, possibly introduced by Norsemen. |
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| Norsemen reached North America and even established settlements, though these ended in failure sometime before the end of the 15th century. |
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| Historically the French people's heritage is diverse, including populations of Gauls, Ligures, Latins, Franks, Iberians, Alamans and Norsemen. |
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| The Danelaw ruled until AD 920 when the Norsemen were expelled by Edward the Elder. |
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| The Britons of Wales later made their peace with the Vikings and Anarawd ap Rhodri allied with the Norsemen occupying Northumbria to conquer the north. |
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| According to the saga, many Norsemen objected to the Norwegian king's unification politics and thus fled to other countries, including the newfound places in the west. |
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| In Dublin, Ireland the Thingmote was a raised mound, 40 foot high and 240 foot in circumference, where the Norsemen assembled and made their laws. |
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| Blood feuds could be regulated at meetings, such as the Norsemen things. |
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| Collingwood was particularly interested in Norse lore and the Norsemen, and he wrote a novel, Thorstein of the Mere which was a major influence on Arthur Ransome. |
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| Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles eventually fell to the Norsemen. |
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| Two hundred years later the upper valley was settled by Norsemen. |
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| Rollo emerged as the outstanding personality among the Norsemen who had secured a permanent foothold on Frankish soil in the valley of the lower Seine. |
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| Nineteen days later the Normans, themselves descended from Norsemen, invaded England and defeated the weakened English army at the Battle of Hastings. |
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| This is the first battle where England united to fight the combined forces of the Norsemen and the Scots, and thus historians consider it the birthplace of England. |
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| When the Norsemen arrived, probably in the 10th century, the county was inhabited by the Picts, but with its culture subject to some Goidelic influence from the Celtic Church. |
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| However, before the Gaelic presence could establish itself the Picts were gradually dispossessed by the Norsemen from the late 8th century onwards. |
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| In the 9th century, Norsemen established the Kingdom of the Isles. |
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| There they encountered the Norsemen, who had established colonies there since the late 10th century, as well as a later wave of the Dorset people. |
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| A few species were introduced by the Norsemen, such as cow vetch. |
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| According to this account, the previous inhabitants, a few Irish monks, known as the Papar, left the island since they did not want to live with pagan Norsemen. |
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