Viking Britain

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A Viking sword with silver and gold hilt, from Dyback, Skane

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Stained glass image of King Cnut

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Viking ships sailing towards unknown land. (Photo by Getty Images)

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What began as small raids on British coastal towns soon developed into all-out war, as a Great Viking Army arrived with a very different aim: to conquer (Photo credit: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Coins depicting Viking longships

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Viking women.(Illustration by Laura Grace Haines)

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

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

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The Lindisfarne Stone showing viking warriors

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Illustration depicting Æthelflæd fighting the Welsh c.916

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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)

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