The Viking Age was relatively short ... of Britain and we are going to start with the invasion of the Great Heathen Army. The first half of this invasion was concluded at the battle of Ashdown ...

The word Viking means ‘a pirate raid’, which ... and it wasn't just a raiding party intent on slaves and gold. The Great Heathen Army wanted everything, and to get it, they would have to ...

Campaigns of the Great Heathen Army/Image: Rowanwindwhistler on Wikimedia Commons ... Although the Danelag persisted for a while, until the mid-10th century, the Viking Age in the country was coming ...

Earlier this year, Amon Amarth released The Great Heathen Army album. Now they're taking things a step further, partnering with Z2 Comics to announce a namesake graphic novel and a board game ...

As Christian monks noted in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, “heathen men destroyed God ... “Our understanding of the chronology of the early Viking Age is really patchy because our best accounts ...

the Great Heathen Army. Cat Jarman St Wystan's sits next to a part of the old River Trent (top left) used by Viking longships "Repton is of quite extraordinary significance as a place where not ...