1002 St. Brices day massacre:Innocent Danish women and children slaughtered

Lorenz Frølich: Bloodbath on the Danish St Brices day 13 november 1002 National museum Frederiksborg castle

England
The Scandinavian population living in England had on several occasions helped the invading viking raiders, and king Æthelred the unready lost constantly most of the battles that he fought. King Æthelred the unready chose to attack innocent weaponless civilians. On the 13th November 1002 he ordered the attack on Danes living in England, the incident was known as the "Danekillings" a lot of Danes living in England was brutally attacked while they were doing their daily deeds and weaponless and most of the victims was innocent children and women. In Oxford, surviving Danes barricaded themselves in a church (where Christ Church Cathedral now stands) and successfully defended themselves until townspeople set fire to the church. The skeletons of some 34 young men believed to have been killed in the same massacre were discovered under St John's College in 2008. The story about the atrocities reached Denmark, where the reaction was: revenge.
Danegeld was paid by Æthelred the Unready to prevent Viking raids against England.

Nordic settlement North Atlantic- 600 ruins found

Greenland

Nordic ship Greenland

With a new arrival of a group of colonists, an epidemic hit the Viking colony in Greenland. Later on when Greenland was settled, most of the farms were at "Østerbygden" in the Southern Greenland, which had 190-250 farms and 3500 people lived there and 400 km further north at Vesterbygden, with 1000 people and 90 farms near what is now called Nuuk.

Eskimo tree figure of European

The farms were build after, the who dares wins concept, the first pioneers got the best places. And later settlers would have to build their farm in remote desolate areas. Archeologist still find farms in remote areas of Greenland. The Norse did not have Greenland for themselves, the Thule Eskimo people, who originally came from the North Western Greenland moved south while the Norse adventured on hunting expeditions to the North. And somewhere in Greenland the two people met. Both people told tales about the meeting, Archeological excavations have found Nordic tools and Eskimo tree figures of European people. The Thule eskimos occupied western settlement in 1341 and middle settlement in 1380.

Brian Boru

Normandy
Emma of Normandy married king of England Æthelred, giving birth to 2 sons, and linking the English Crown to the Duchy of Normandy.
Ireland

Brian Boru became High king of Ireland. This worried the king of Dublin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, so he took a decision to support a beginning rebellion against Brian Boru. He was encouraged by his mother Gormflaith, who was Brian Boru’s ex-wife.

Viking ship reenactment

Wales
Viking raiders attacked Dyfed, but this time they did not raid the Church of St. David at Menevia.

954 - Eric Bloodaxe killed in ambush

England Eric Bloodaxe was expelled from York and he was killed in an ambush. According to English sources, Eric died a death on the road, “treacherously killed by Earl Maccus”. But Scandinavian sources tell another tale: Eric met his enemies as the leader of an outnumbered army and there on the high, wind-scoured pass, he died the glorious death. A poem paid for by his wife told that Eric arrivied at Valhalla, welcomed by Valkyries, to feast by Odin’s side. Erik Rex - Bloodaxe coin Eric Bloodaxe was the son of Harald Fairhair and the Danish royal daughter Ragnhild and he succeeded his father on the Norwegian throne, but because of his cruel and atrocious rule he was driven out of Norway and his younger brother Haakon chosen as king of Norway. Stainmore After the murder on Eric Bloodaxe, Northumbria was again brought back to Edred the Anglo-Saxon king and England was united. The widow of Eric Bloodaxe, Gunhild sailed to Denmark with her sons. They received a warm we...

825 - Grímur Kamban arrived at Faroe islands

Faroe islands Grímur Kamban arrived at Faroe islands, he had Irish slaves with him, and did not come from Norway, Kamban is a Celtic name. On these island the only inhabitants he found was sheep and birds, he chose to settle at Funningur at Eysturoy. Irish monk Dicuil wrote that it took 2 days sail there from Ireland, and that the islands had been inhabited by Irish hermits for hundreds of years, but that Norwegian Vikings had forced them out. Thirty years before this was written, Norse ships arrived among the islands. The hermits chose to leave the islands as the solitude they sought was lost. On the outskirts of Torshavn free men of Faroe Islands would meet once a year at Tinganes, 6 local courts, "thingsteads" met each spring. Faroe Island viking settlement England Kingdom of Sussex and Essex was absorbed by Wessex Germany In Aachen a new peace treaty was signed by Franks and Danes. Denmark Danish coinage in Hedeby began, the coins were copies of Frank...

789 and before the infamous Lindisfarne raid

150 A comb found in Vimose, Denmark, features runes on a bone comb, which was the man's name Harja. The name is thus the oldest Norse name.Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered a small knife inscribed with the country’s oldest runic inscription, hirila, meaning ‘Little Sword’ 400 Oldest runestone in Øverby,SE Norway. 500 Radiocarbon dating reveals that the first walls of Dannevirke was build around 480-500 and some older walls were from around 400. In September 2021 a treasurehunter found a 1 kilo gold treasure of coins and jewels buried outside Jelling. 512 The Greek Procopios a secretary at the Byzantine general Belisarius told that emperor Anastasius Dicorus gave permission to Heruli to settle in Illyria, because the Longobards had driven them out from the area between Donau and Dniester. Here they killed their king Onchon and sent some of their people back to Thule to recruit a new king among their fellow tribesmen. They had free passage through the land of the ...

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