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Viking
Attacks
The following is a chronological
list of major Viking military confrontations, occupations,
and explorations. It is not comprehensive, and probably many
Viking raids on smaller communities occurred nearly continuously
without being recorded by contemporary historians during this
chaotic period. However, it should give you an idea of how
widespread the Viking incursions were. It should also explain
why medieval Europeans and British folk were so frightened
by them. Red entries were successful Viking
incursions, conquests, or explorations. Black
entries were times the Vikings lost or were
driven away.
- Frisia (570)
- Portland (787): Three lost viking
ships land at Portland Bill. The king's reeve tries
to collect taxes from them. They kill him and sail on.
- Isle of Lindisfarne (793)
- Isle of Skye (795)
- Ionia (795)
- Rathün (795)
- Aquitaine (799)
- St. Philibergt (799)
- Ionia (802, again)
- Lyminge (804)
- Ionia (806, yet again)
- Slav town of Reric, citizens
transfer to Hedeby (808)
- Frisia (810, again)
- Vestfold, Norway--Norwegian
Vikings struggle with Danish Vikings (813)
- Flanders (820)
- Aquitaine (820)
- Faroes Islands (825)
- Arnagh (832)
- Arnagh (832, again)
- Arnagh (832, yet again)
- Dorestad (834)
- Sheppy (835)
- Dorestad (835, again)
- Dorestad (836, yet again)
- Dorestad (837, even yet again)
- Constantinople (839, not sacked, but city was reached
by Swedish Vikings)
- Dublin (840)
- Dublin (841 permanent Viking
settlement in Dublin)
- Francia (842)
- Frisia (843, yet again)
- Nantes (848)
- Coulouse (844)
- Galicia (844)
- Al-Andalus (844)
- Hamburg (845)
- Frisia (845)
- Paris (845)
- Bordeaux (848)
- Canterbury (851)
- London (851)
- Mona (852)
- St. Martin (853)
- Tours (853)
- Various Mediterranean Isles
(859-862 )
- Iceland explored by Gardar the
Swede (860)
- Constantinople (860, threatened
yet again)
- Winchester (860)
- Novgorod (862)
- St. Benoit (865)
- Fleury (865)
- Poitiers (865)
- Various English cities completely
overrun by Danish Vikings (865)
- York (867)
- Armaugh (869)
- Dumberton (870)
- Orkney (870)
- Alt Clud (870)
- Wessex (871)
- Viking settlement of Iceland
(870-930)
- Repton (873)
- Ireland (873, yet again)
- Wessex (again, 876)
- Wessex (yet again, 877)
- Gloucester (877)
- St. David's (878)
- Dyfed (878)
- Edington (878, Vikings defeated)
- Kiev (880)
- Aachen (881)
- Cologne (881)
- Paris (885-886)
- London (886, Vikings defeated)
- the Dyle (891, Viking
defeated)
- Lloeger (895)
- Bytheiniog (895)
- Various sites in Northwest England
(900, again)
- Dublin (902, Vikings expelled
from area)
- Normandy (911, Viking Rollo
recognized as ruler of Normandy by the French)
- Brittany (912)
- Brittany (914-36 yet again!)
- Dublin (917, yet again, Vikings
recapture city)
- Corbridge (917)
- Germania (934, Vikings defeated)
- Limerick (937)
- Brunanburh (937, Viking and
Scottish alliance defeated)
- Stainmore (954, Vikings defeated)
- various sites in England (980,
even yet again)
- Greenland (981)
- Baffin Island (986)
- Greenland (yet again, 986)
- Newfoundland (986)
- Maldon (991)
- Folkistone (991)
- London (994)
- Svold (1000)
- Vinland (1000)
- Norway (1015, conquered)
- England under ruler of Cnut
(1016-35)
- most of northern Scotland conquered
(1030-35)
- England (End of Danish rule
1042)
- Constantinople (last Rus attack
1043)
- Fulford and Stamford Bridge
(1066)
- Hastings (Normans, i.e., Viking
descendents in northern France,
led
by William
the
Bastard,
invade England in 1066)
- England (1069, yet again, Vikings defeated)
- England (1075, even yet again, last major Danish invasion
of Britain)
- Hebrides (1095)
- Norman descendents of Vikings
in France expand into southern Italy (1071)
- Ulster (1103, Vikings defeated)
- East Coast of England raided,
but Vikings driven off (1153)
- Largs, Scotland (1263)
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