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For a short period, they also operated as a standalone European business. In May 2016, following a failed merger with Staples,[5] Office Depot Inc. agreed to sell its European business, including Viking, to Aurelius Group for an undisclosed purchase price.[6] In November 2021, Aurelius sold the business to The RAJA Group.[7]
Members of the group appeared in the British Museum's Vikings Live [21] cinema broadcast in 2014 to launch the Vikings: Life and Legend exhibition. Member Peter Holyoake starred in the Kerry Food's 'Walls! Bring It On Britain!' advertising campaign in 2010. [22] Footage from the groups re-enactment at Hemsby Viking Festival 2010 is used in the ad.
Jarl Orm, the likely ruler of Leicester at the time [9] (and who attested charters between 930 and 958 [citation needed]) married his daughter Aldgyth to King Olaf later that year to cement the alliance. The burh might have made use of the walls of the Roman Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum), of approx 7,800 ft (2,400 m) [12] (c. 1900 hides).
Such Viking evidence in Britain consists primarily of Viking burials undertaken in Shetland, Orkney, the Western Isles, the Isle of Man, Ireland, and the north-west of England. [53] Archaeologists James Graham-Campbell and Colleen E. Batey remarked that it was on the Isle of Man where Norse archaeology was "remarkably rich in quality and ...
The Kingdom of the East Angles (Old English: Ēastengla Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Orientalium Anglorum), informally known as the Kingdom of East Anglia, was a small independent kingdom of the Angles during the Anglo-Saxon period comprising what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens, [1] the area still known as East Anglia.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man found guilty of stealing a Viking hoard of gold worth £3 million. Metal detectorist George Powell, from Newport, failed to appear at Birmingham ...
Viking Mortar Section in 2020 Viking Armoured Vehicle of the Royal Marines during a demonstration at the Portsmouth International Festival in 2005. Viking Squadron is under the overall control of Commando Logistic Regiment and is the armoured element of UK Commando Force, equipped with the Viking armoured vehicle. [10]
High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England.A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain. [1]