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The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia but also to any place significantly settled by ...
Vikings is a historical drama television series created and written by Michael Hirst.A co-production between Canada and Ireland, the series originally aired on the History Channel, premiering on 3 March 2013 and concluding on 30 December 2020, when the second half of the sixth season was released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video in the Republic of Ireland, ahead of its broadcast on ...
The names of Scandinavian kings are reliably known for only the later part of the Viking Age. After the end of the Viking Age, the separate kingdoms gradually acquired distinct identities as nations, which went hand-in-hand with their Christianisation. Thus, the end of the Viking Age for the Scandinavians also marks the start of their ...
Vikings. season 6. The sixth and final season of the historical drama television series Vikings premiered on December 4, 2019, on History in Canada. [1] The series broadly follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok and his crew, and later those of his sons.
The Viking king of Northumbria, Halfdan Ragnarrson (Old English: Healfdene)—one of the leaders of the Viking Great Army (known to the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army)—surrendered his lands to a second wave of Viking invaders in 876. In the next four years, Vikings gained further land in the kingdoms of Mercia and East Anglia as well ...
This event is often cited as the end of the Viking era. The same year, William the Conqueror, himself a descendant of Vikings, successfully took the English throne and became the first Norman king of England. 1069 − Sweyn II of Denmark landed with an army, in much the same way as Harald Hardrada. He took control of York after defeating the ...
The fifth season of the historical drama television series Vikings premiered on 29 November 2017 on History in Canada. [1] The series broadly follows the exploits of the legendary Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok and his crew, and later those of his sons. The fifth season consists of a double-season order of twenty episodes, split into two ...
Battle of Stamford Bridge. Part of the Viking invasions of England and the Norman Conquest. Date. 25 September 1066 (Monday) Location. Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. 53°59′33″N 00°54′45″W / 53.99250°N 0.91250°W / 53.99250; -0.91250. Result. English victory.