Medieval archaeologist from York, Alex Harvey, has written a book focusing on what he calls the Forgotten Vikings. Here he ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Numismatist Adrian Marsden said the pagan Vikings went from killing Edmund ... ruled under Scandinavian law and customs, known as the Danelaw. Yet within a short time, silver pennies were being ...

and Danelaw (an early English exercise in multiculturalism) to attest to that. As late as 1911, Rudyard Kipling was writing about Danes, not Vikings, saying of the custom of paying for peace ...