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    1. In AD 866, Vikings from East Anglia captured the important city of York, which had previously been a Roman stronghold and capital of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. 2. For nearly 100 years, York was ruled by Danish or Norse Viking kings, except for a brief period when King Athelstan regained control for the English. 3. Many Vikings who had settled in York remained after the last Viking king, Eric Bloodaxe, was expelled in AD 954, and York became part of the new kingdom of England.

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    1. In AD 866, Vikings from East Anglia captured the important city of York, which had previously been a Roman stronghold and capital of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. 2. For nearly 100 years, York was ruled by Danish or Norse Viking kings, except for a brief period when King Athelstan regained control for the English. 3. Many Vikings who had settled in York remained after the last Viking king, Eric Bloodaxe, was expelled in AD 954, and York became part of the new kingdom of England.

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    1. In AD 866, Vikings from East Anglia captured the important city of York, which had previously been a Roman stronghold and capital of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. 2. For nearly 100 years, York was ruled by Danish or Norse Viking kings, except for a brief period when King Athelstan regained control for the English. 3. Many Vikings who had settled in York remained after the last Viking king, Eric Bloodaxe, was expelled in AD 954, and York became part of the new kingdom of England.

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    1. In AD 866, Vikings from East Anglia captured the important city of York, which had previously been a Roman stronghold and capital of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. 2. For nearly 100 years, York was ruled by Danish or Norse Viking kings, except for a brief period when King Athelstan regained control for the English. 3. Many Vikings who had settled in York remained after the last Viking king, Eric Bloodaxe, was expelled in AD 954, and York became part of the new kingdom of England.

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    THE CITY
    1. Jorvik -
    a Viking City
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    Peter Addyman

    In AD 866, when the Vikings set off from East Viking kings, either Danish or Norse, ruled
    Anglia to capture York, it was already a place of York with only one interruption from AD 866 to
    great importance. Originally a Roman 954. The only break came when Alfred the
    stronghold, and later the capital of the Anglian Great's powerful grandson, King Athelstan,
    Kingdom of Northumbria, the city had strong briefly regained control for the English from AD
    defensive walls and must have contained a 927 to 939. But in AD 954 Eric Bloodaxe, the
    royal palace. The Church in York was headed by last Viking king, was expelled, and York finally
    an archbishop, and had long been famous became part of the new kingdom of England.
    throughout Europe for its fine library and Many of the Vikings who had settled in
    scholars. York's communications were good: York stayed behind, however, andlcontinued their
    roads following natural ridges across the marshy prosperous life as traders and craftsmen. Under
    Vale of York linked the city to the fertile lands the Vikings, York lay at the centre of a huge
    of East Yorkshire and to the Pennine uplands in area of Scandinavian settlement in north-
    the west. The river Ouse linked York to the eastern England; the city had grown larger, and
    North Sea, and brought trading ships to the city had become a more important centre for
    from many countries. manufacturing, crafts and trade than ever
    before. I n about AD 1000 a writer described
    York as "filled with treasures of merchants from
    t many lands, particularly the Danes," and when

    William the Conqueror had Domesday Book

    drawn up in 1086 to list England's wealth, York


    was second only to London in size and
    prosperity.

    YORK

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    Map of Jorvik in the late Viking-age

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    Map to show areas of Scandinavian settlement\-


    evidence drawn from distribution of Scandinavian place
    names
    .Areas of intensive Scandinavian settlement

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