In AD892, over 300 Viking ships invaded Britain to fight King Alfred of Wessex. No one knows how big the Viking army was but if there were 20 men in each Viking ship, the army of AD892 numbered 6000!

The Viking Great Army’s arrival in 865 was recounted in ... Found among them were an iron ax, two fighting knives, and five silver pennies dating to 872–874. As part of a new archaeological ...

In addition to the longhouse, a Viking grave was discovered in the ... to have occurred around 986 A.D., featured a Norwegian army fighting an invading Danish force. In defeating the Danes ...

of York) and is titled "The Viking Great Army and its Legacy." The lecture is open to registered attendees of the International Congress on Medieval Studies.

I'm president of the Norwegian Glima Federation and a senior instructor at the Academy of Viking Martial Arts in Norway. Today, we're going to be looking at ax-fight scenes in movies and TV.

A lost Viking army which was a "key part" of the creation of England may have been identified by archaeologists. More than 250 skeletons found at St Wystan's church, Repton, Derbyshire ...