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Fair Fame of Years - History of the Vikings
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 The Fury of the Northmen: 793-878 AD
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From the sack of Lidesfarne to Alfred the Great's watershed treaty with Guthorm, these were the years of the great Viking raids on Europe.
"From the fury of the Northmen, O Lord, deliver us!" monks are said to have prayed. This is probably a myth, but for many years much of Europe lay open to the hit-and-run tactics of increasingly larger and increasingly bolder Viking raiding parties.
Taking advantage of their fast and versatile ships, these rapid moving armies could hit coastal monasteries and settlements and get away before any local force could arrive, though if it came to a fight the Vikings had a ferocious reputation as warriors. For decades great armies ranged through England, Ireland and France and raided as far south as Spain and Italy.
Later the raiders were to become settlers, traders and mercenaries, but in this period the Vikings were feared throughout a Europe already racked by other turmoils.
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