Quotes About Vikings

I've been writing seriously since the 90s and my first manuscript was a "hysterical." I was in love with Vikings back then but somehow my Vikings sounded like Navy SEALs on horses. I guess my love for Navy SEALs can be traced back to those Viking sea marauders!

Entery Ships The rule say that Pirate ships are faster then anything - except the Barbery vikings, when on the side of good can overtake even Pirates. Se also Boats and Galleys.

the shires which Alfred not so long before had been obliged to surrender to the Vikings remained for the most part united till the twelfth century under the common designation of "Danelaw". But the region so named extended well beyond the limits within which the study of place-names reveals intensive Scandinavian settlement.

The 'heathen men' who attacked Lindisfarne in the summer of 793 are better known today as the vikings,

they preyed on monasteries like Lindisfarne, it was undoubtedly because they were soft, isolated targets,

people were once again becoming alarmed at the sight of viking sails.

England had been conquered by the Vikings, and its ancient royal family were in exile – in Normandy.

but the vikings who targeted Kent and Hampshire are likely to have come directly from Scandinavia

In 844 they sailed up the River Garonne, one of the great arteries of Francia,

Then, in the summer of 991, a much larger force arrived from Scandinavia.

it forced Æthelred to do what Byrhtnoth had refused to countenance, and pay the vikings to cease their plundering.

Hastein's wife and sons were

the vikings would see if they could extract ransoms for the safe return of valuable books.

we have almost no idea of how the vikings saw themselves, because as pagans they were illiterate,

following day they encountered the entire viking army at a place called Edington,

The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

With the arrival from Sweden of the three Vikings, Rurik and his two brothers Sineus and Truvor, the true history of Russia begins, and the one thousandth anniversary of that event was commemorated at Novgorod in the year 1862.

I can understand why the Vikings believed in storm giants. I keep having to remind myself that there is no intention behind this. It feels so angry. As if it wants to tear apart the cabin and carry me off into the night.