A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.
In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entr.
It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born.
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century.
A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954