id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 53106 Mawer, A. (Allen) The Vikings .txt text/plain 36161 1917 72 The term 'Viking' is derived from the Old Norse _vík_, a bay, and The period of Scandinavian history to which the term Viking is applied after year, from some time before 819, Vikings harried the island of The great development of Viking activity which took place after 855 Norsemen who attacked England in the days of king Ethelred. of the country placing the district once settled by Danes and Norsemen was one of the chief leaders in the great Danish invasion of England in against the Vikings in Munster and for a time had the Norse kingdom of Viking battles which find record in Scandinavian saga, and in the story THE VIKINGS IN THE ORKNEYS, SCOTLAND, THE WESTERN ISLANDS AND MAN When the Vikings sailed to England and Ireland in the late 8th and common as to go 'west-viking' and Scandinavian settlements were founded period of Viking rule dates the origin of the chief Irish towns. ./cache/53106.txt ./txt/53106.txt