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1066 - French horsepower broke England

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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890 - Ohthere of Hålogaland journeys

Norway
Items found at Skiringssal
On a summer day in 890 the seaman, trader and chieftain Ohthere of Hålogaland sailed into the southern Norway, to enter the town Skiringsal, with a 50000 m2 area, this was the biggest trading post in Norway, and it was visited by Frisian, Slav, English, French and Viking traders and other adventurers. When the ship reached land, Ohthere gave an order to pull the ship up on land, and place it beside the other knarre, which was the most used trading vessel. The cargo probably consisted of birds feathers, whale and walrus horn and ship rope smade out of walrus and whale skin, which Ohthere and his men wanted to sell.
Skiringsal had glass pearls from Syria and Persia, Indian jewelry, Baltic amber and pottery from France and the Rhine area, Italian glass, slaves and silver treasures which were conquered and robbed from Irish and English
Payment was with silver and Arabic coins, which was cut to lesser pieces.The local artisans sold iron from Norway, weaved cloth, bone combs, while vine traders, the local peasants and the fishermen earned a few hard earned coins on the travelers needs and thirst and hunger. 

The tale about Ohthere visit in Skiringssal or Kaupang was written in an Old English script Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, as a update to an old book from the 5th century written by Orosius in the 5th-century. 
It was Alfred the great that made the book and the events that Ohthere described may have taken place at any time from the 870s to the late 890s, and Ohthere's account is given in the form of a third-person report of what he said to King Alfred, rather than as reported speech Ohthere's story is the earliest known written source for the term "Denmark" (dena mearc), and for "Norway" (norðweg)
Ohthere "had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses." But his main income was the tax paid by the Sami people, of whom the highest-born paid 15 marten skins, 5 reindeer skins, 1 bear skin, 10 ambers of feathers, 1 coat of bear skin or otter skin and two ship's ropes, each 60 ells long, made of either whale skin or seal skin.
Dagfinn Skre
Dagfinn Skre have researched and dug in Southern Norway and has revealed that it was an important trading town, which was build in the end of the 8th century, and had a population on 500-600 people.
Brittany
The vikings regained their strength and attacked Saint-Lô in Normandy. The viking fleet attacked west Brittany, but was defeated, and in the autumn they were back in the Oise area at Noyon.
Denmark
Olav became the king over South Jutland. Gorm the old was born.
Iceland
Olaf Feilan, gode and chieftain was born.
Ireland
Vikings raided Armagh, and captured 710 thralls.
Scotland
Sigurd the mighty and Torsten the red’s invasion of Northern Scotland had resulted in the control of Caithness and Sutherland, but Torsten the red lost his life, he was killed between 880 and 890, after being ambushed by painted Picts.Donald 2 expelled Britsh nobles from Strathclyde.
Viking price sheet
Wales 
Y Normanyeit Duon(black Northmen) attacked Castell Baldwin in Powys
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Location: Saint-Lô, France

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