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The first recorded Viking raid in Irish history occurred in AD 795 when Vikings, possibly from Norway [10] looted the island of Lambay. [note 4] This was followed by a raid on the coast of Brega in 798, and raids on the coast of Connacht in 807. [11] These early Viking raids were generally small in scale and quick.
Ireland c. 900. The First Viking Age in Ireland began in 795, when Vikings began carrying out hit-and-run raids on Gaelic Irish coastal settlements. Over the following decades the raiding parties became bigger and better organized; inland settlements were targeted as well as coastal ones; and the raiders built naval encampments known as longphorts to allow them to remain in Ireland throughout ...
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
Map of the larger Irish kingdoms in 1014. The Vikings (or Norsemen) began carrying out raids on Gaelic Ireland in the late eighth century, and over the following few decades they founded a number of settlements along the coast. Vikings first established themselves in Dublin in 838 when they built a fortified area, or longphort, there. [3]
Map showing the Viking settlements in Ireland. The first recorded Viking raid in Irish history occurred in 795 AD when Vikings from Norway looted the island. Early Viking raids were generally fast-paced and small in scale.
In the year 795 Vikings (probably of Norwegian origin) raided islands off the coast of Ireland for the first time. Viking invasions and raids continued, before the creation of Norse settlements in the area of modern-day Dublin.
Viking raids penetrate deep inland. [4] 837. Large Viking fleets appear on the River Boyne and the River Liffey, [1] made up of sixty ships at each location. [7] 838 - 841. A small Viking fleet enters the River Liffey in eastern Ireland, probably led by the chieftain Saxolb (Soxulfr) who is killed later this year.
Such raids mainly affected areas on the Seine and in modern-day Netherlands and Belgium. Previously, the Vikings had raided England (Lindisfarne, 793) and Ireland (Dublin, 795). In 820, the first major attack by Vikings on the Frankish Empire was recorded, taking place around the mouth of the river Seine, and at the same time other Vikings ...