Viking Britain

Ivar the Bonelss arrives in England

Who was Ivar the Boneless? Plus 6 more Vikings facts you should know

Coins depicting Viking longships

A brief history of the Vikings

Viking ships arriving in Britain, c1130. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty

From the raid on Lindisfarne to Harald Hardrada’s defeat: 8 Viking dates you need to know

A 15th-century stained glass window from Canterbury Cathedral, depicting King Cnut.

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about King Cnut

Inside the fort was a famous spring, St Helen’s Well, today Robin Hood’s Well. (© Bill Henderson)

Brunanburh: Where did the battle that saved England take place?

The Lindisfarne Stone showing viking warriors

Your guide to the Viking raid of Lindisfarne in AD 793

Illustration depicting Æthelflæd fighting the Welsh c.916

Æthelflæd: the Lady of the Mercians

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, the first Saxon king of all England, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

A brief history of England

A Viking sword with silver and gold hilt, from Dyback, Skane. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How England rode the Viking storm

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Alfred the Great and science at Christmas

Detail of the carved portal of Hylestad stave church, 12th century. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The lost battles of Viking Britain

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Viking Britain

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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne

A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cnut: the great Dane