In 865, a massive Scandinavian army landed in East Anglia and set out to erase the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, not raid them. This chapter follows the Great Heathen Army’s conquest, Alfred’s last stand at ...
Saxons. Audio drama telling the story of Alfred the Great and his struggles against the Vikings. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.
In 893, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a large Viking army landed at Appledore in east Kent, having rampaged through northern France and boarded 250 ships at Boulogne, writes Derek Carpenter.
The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...