"Where the F**K did we park the damned boat?!" Blacksmithn the Red, just before being set upon and slain by vengeful Englishmen (approx. 878 A.D.)
To destroy my enemies, to drive them before me, to hear the lamentations of the vimmin . . .
-- Conan the Governator . . . er, Barbarian
William was late to the party. Vikings had been raiding England and then settling there for a couple of hundred years before him:
From about 800 AD, waves of Viking assaults on the coastlines of the British Isles were gradually followed by a succession of settlers. These enclaves rapidly expanded, and soon the Viking warriors were establishing areas of control of such extent that they might reasonably be described as kingdoms.
"The reasons for these wave of immigrations are complex and bound to the political situation in Scandinavia at that time; moreover, they occurred at a time when the Viking forces were also establishing their presence in the Hebrides, in the Orkneys, the Faroe Islands, in Iceland, in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (see Kievan Rus')."
(from "Danelaw" at wikipedia.co
jeez, never thought I'd get an historical essay, even a cut and paste one, in before setanta did.
Frankly, the topic rather bores me . . . but the silly remarks always lure me back . . .
Viking Immigrants (Download Note: free
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"Can we kill him now?" Blacksmithn the Red to Leif One-Eyed, referring to Ethelbert the Untuneful, the laryngitis suffering minstrel of Egbert, King of Umbria.
Can't respond at the moment, since I'm in serious talks with Mathilde the Always Ready for Anything momentarily.
Walter Hinteler wrote:Can't respond at the moment, since I'm in serious talks with Mathilde the Always Ready for Anything momentarily.
Go Walter, you madman! :wink:
