The Viking Great Army’s arrival in 865 was recounted in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: “A great heathen force came into English land, and they took winter-quarters in East Anglia; there they were ...

Chronicles state a "large heathen army" began to hack its way ... went from ferocious raiders to an invading force - the Viking Great Army had arrived. Ms Jarman, from the department of ...

The Viking raids had been mostly hit and run affairs – until 865AD, when a great heathen army swept up and down the country destroying Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Eventually, after many bloody battles ...

The Great Heathen Army wanted everything, and to get it, they would have to take on the AngloSaxons. In AD865 an army of Vikings sailed across the North Sea. This time they wanted to conquer land ...

📜 Viking Expansion: Rollo the Walker - Rollo the Walker led the Great Heathen Army and had his sights set on sacking Paris, in a time when relations between the Vikings and the Franks had ...

months in 873 AD at the hands of the Vikings under their infamous leader Ivar the Boneless and their most terrible iteration, the Great Heathen Army. Cat Jarman St Wystan's sits next to a part of ...

Dozens of sites linked to the Viking great army as it ravaged Anglo ... recorded that the “great heathen army” arrived in 865. Over 15 years, battles were fought in the kingdoms of East ...