Viking Britain

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

Coins depicting Viking longships, probably minted at Hedeby, Denmark, dating from the early 9th century. The Viking era began in the ninth century and ended in 1066, when the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada was defeated at the battle of Stamford Bridge. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

A brief history of the Vikings

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

A 15th-century stained glass window from Canterbury Cathedral, depicting King Cnut. (CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images) (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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

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

8 key Viking dates you need to know

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Alfred the Great and science at Christmas

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

Where was the battle that saved England?

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

The Library 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

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Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons

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Cnut’s invasion of England: setting the scene for the Norman conquest