Places Archives - The Viking Archive

Lewis and Harris

The Viking Age on the island where the Lewis Chessmen were found.

Norse sites and settlement in Canada.

Living on the Viking Western Frontier.

A Viking winter camp in the U.K. that’s being thoroughly investigated.

Inscription on Croatian hilltop dates back to Viking Age and refers to Scandinavia.

15 April 1053 – Death of Godwin, Earl of Wessex.

16 April 778 – Birth of Louis I ’the Pious’ of France. Son of Charlemagne and Hildegard.

16 April 1117 – Murder of Magnus Erlendsson (aka Saint Magnus), son of the Jarl of Orkney.

17 April 1080 – Death of Harald Whetstone, son of Sweyn II of Denmark.

18 April 796 – Death of Aethelred I, King of Northumbria.

19 April 1012 – Murder of St Aelfheah (or Alphege), Archbishop of Canterbury by the Danish Viking army.

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