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!

It also doesn’t help that the Vikings didn’t write things down. We can turn to The Last Kingdom to see this as well. King Alfred was the one who started taking notes, and yes, the real King ...

Tusker Rock, an island in the Bristol Channel just off the coast at Ogmore-by-Sea, took its name from Tuska, a Danish Viking ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king is "the first in the country ... Anglo-Saxon England and waged war against Alfred the Great. He converted to Christianity ...

The Anglo-Saxon king was killed by the Vikings in AD869 and made a saint ... Source: Portable Antiquities Scheme Once Alfred the Great defeated the Great Army at Edington in AD878, the warlord ...