March 16, 2023 – Vikings Were Not Real

Using it as a defensive measure against the French

by viking_userReasons March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

The English leadership is well known to have used the specter of “Vikings” to keep others at bay. One of the best known uses of these tales is to limit the invading Normans to the southern part of England where a more central defense could be set up against. The Normans fully believed in the …

Clergy hiding opposing views

by viking_userReasons March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

In 793 AD, an anguished Alcuin of York wrote to the Higbald, the bishop of Lindisfarne and to Ethelred, King of Northumbria, bemoaning the unexpected attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne by Viking raiders, claiming it was Norwegians sailing directly across the North Sea to Northumbria. The truth is this was an insurrection from inside …