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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...

801 Charlemagne provoked the Danes

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France
Ansgar, the missionary and later saint was born on the 8 September at Amiens.
Germany
Emperor Charlemagne formally gave the empty Nordalbian territory (modern-day North  East Germany) to the heathen Slav tribe the Obrotrites. This was a provocation against the Danes.
a strong central authority appeared to have been established in Jutland, and the Danes were ready to leave their own territory for land, trade and plunde
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Nordic mythology 9 worlds
Rus was Old Norse for “he who rows” and Rus Viking traders had established trade routes to Bagdad. Archaeological discoveries of Sassanid, Arab dirham coins dated no later than 804–805 at Peterhof, near Saint-Petersburg. The Rus would later found the towns of Kiev and Novgorod.

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