Peter Nicolai Arbo England 5th January 1066 , The English king Edward the confessor and then earl Harold Godwinson was proclaimed king at Westminster Abbey the day after the 6th. Edward the confessor had promised both Harold and William "Bastard" of Normandy the seat of the throne before he died. Both men were distant relatives to the childless Edward the confessor. When William heard of it he quickly raised an army. Harald Hardrada also claimed the English throne and he was faster than William the bastard and on 8th September,1066 240-300 Viking ships landed on the beaches of Scarborough and began an attempt to gain the English throne. 20th September,1066 Battle of Fulford : Harald Hardrada defeated the English earls Edwin and Walther. 2 days later Harald Hardrada attacked and conquered York. 24th September,1066 Harold Godwinson arrived after marching from London. 25th September,1066 Battle of Stamford bridge Battle of Stamford bridge Harald...
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Frisia was attacked by a viking fleet
Ireland
Vikings stayed for the winter 839-40 in Ireland after a series of great victories against the Irish. They made a camp at Lough Neagh which they occupied for 3 years. Vikings overwintered for the first time in the newly established longphort in Dublin.
Scotland
Vikings also defeated the Picts in their own kingdom. In a major battlet the Ulster chronicle tells us that, the Vikings killed most all of the Pictish nobles and the king of Picts Eogann mac Oengusa and Áed mac Boanta the king of the Scottish kingdom Dál Riata.The Picts in Scotland never recovered and the possibility of a counter-invasion disappeared.
Turkey
In 839 Swedish vikings reached Miklagaard (Istanbul), they did not manage to sack the city.
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