After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

she asks. Childs is planning a commemorative event in Gainsborough in February to mark the life, and death, of the first Viking king of England. Despite his short reign, Childs says Forkbeard left ...

He took that and the Crown besides, ruling as King Henry IV. A 15th-century depiction of the marriage of Henry V of England to Catherine of Valois, from Jean Chartier’s ‘Chronique de Charles VII.’ ...

Forget the Vikings you think you know – the horned helmets, the bloodthirsty raids, the endless quest for plunder! One Viking traded his axe for a crown and swapped pillaging for piety.