| 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. |
| In England the Viking Age began dramatically on 8 June 793 when Norsemen destroyed the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne. |
| Alfred's dynasty, which had survived Danes, Norsemen, and Danes again, had succumbed at last to foreign invasion. |
| At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale. |
| Towards the end of the 9th century, the Norsemen or Vikings began raiding the area. |
| The Norsemen, for example, had by AD 1100 established the first Atlantic maritime empire that linked Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, and North America. |
