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The Norwegian Connection
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In the year AD 789, three strange
ships arrived at Portland on the southern coast of England and
Beaduheard, the reeve of the King of Wessex, rode out to meet
them. He took with him only a small blind of men under the
mistaken impression that the strangers were traders: "and
they slew him...” records the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tersely.
It adds, with over a century of grim hindsight, "those
were the first ships [of Northmen] which came to the land of
the English".
[Viking
& Scandinavian Gifts & Jewelry offered by the Celtic Attic] |
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