Gildas, a British monk, (circa 504-570 AD) wrote that the Angles and Saxons received a great setback at Mount Badon, possibly somewhere in south west Britain, where they were defeated by the Britons.

Throughout the saga of Vikings, England emerges as a land of opulence and strife, its verdant fields and majestic kingdoms drawing the Norsemen across treacherous seas. At the time of their arrival, ...

And, of course, the church centers and monasteries like Lindisfarne [a monastery in Northern England that Vikings pillaged in A.D. 793] constituted the major sources of wealth at that time.

The Vikings were not all bloodthirsty raiders. Some came to fight, but others came to Britain to live peacefully. Viking Who were they? What did they do? King The most powerful person in all the ...

Minnesota has played three previous games in London – most recently in 2022 – and the Vikings have won all of them. They are very popular in England and are likely to have more than half the ...

A set of eight new stamps have been issued to celebrate the "history, impact and legacy" of Vikings in Britain and mark the 40th anniversary of the Jorvik Viking Centre in York. The stamps feature ...

For centuries—indeed, ever since Viking raiders savagely attacked England's Lindisfarne monastery in A.D. 793—the Vikings have seemed to many to have been little more than blue-eyed barbarians ...