The pierced coin was probably lost by a member of the Viking Great Army, says a coin expert.
On September 25, 1066, King Harold Godwinson's Saxon army had just force-marched nearly 200 miles in four days to confront a Norwegian invasion led by Harald Hardrada—one of the most feared Viking ...
In 865, a massive Scandinavian army landed in East Anglia and set out to erase the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, not raid them. This chapter follows the Great Heathen Army’s conquest, Alfred’s last stand at ...
The Viking Great Army may have finally been found. A mass grave discovered in England in the 1980s was initially thought to be associated with the Vikings, but radiocarbon dating suggested that the ...