The Viking Warrior: The Norse Raiders who terrorised Medieval Europe by Ben Hubbard

Author:Ben Hubbard [Hubbard, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, azw
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2017-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

Alfred receives Guthrum at Aller after defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Edington.

Charlemagne watches in dismay as a Viking army led by Godfred invades the newly annexed Frankish territory of Frisia.

While Louis the Pious battled for supremacy with his sons, Lothar, Louis the German and Charles the Bald, the Vikings broke through the weakened Frankish defences. Their target was Dorestad, one of the largest trading centres in northwestern Europe and the jewel in the crown of Frisia. The Vikings sacked Dorestad in 834, 835, 836 and 837. One of the early Viking forays into the River Thames took place after the 835 sacking of Dorestad. The coastline of Ireland was also being mercilessly plundered at this time. In the heart of the Frankish kingdom, the floodgates had also been opened, and the terrible Viking tide could not be stopped.

Over the next few years the raids became regular and relentless: in 841 the Vikings sailed up the River Seine and sacked Rouen; in 842 the trading centre Quentovic was plundered; in 843, Nantes on the Loire was raided and the population slaughtered during a busy St John’s Day; in the same year the first overwintering on the continent by a Viking force took place at Noirmoutier: here, the warriors set up camp “as if they meant to stay for ever”.

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