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On this day in 845, nearly 5,000 Viking raiders arrived in Paris. After months of sailing along the Seine river, the Vikings - warriors from Scandinavia led by Ragnar Loþbrók - were hungry for blood. Facing them was a Frankish army under Charles the Bald, a Carolingian ruler and incredibly hairy individual. The Vikings had…
One of the first encounters between the Vikings and the Saxons in Wessex. (Pinterest) On this day in 871, hundreds of armed men under the command of King Æthelred I formed up for battle in a field somewhere in Wessex (in the south of the modern-day United Kingdom). Across the field from Æthelred's Saxon men…
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