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Timeline

England 793 - First Viking raid on Britain.
England 850s - Viking Great Army captures York. Viking soldiers and settlers seize farm land in many parts of England. Scotland 850s - Vikings settle in western and northern isles, Caithness and Sutherland.
Scotland, late 800s - Earls of Orkney rule much of Scotland.
England 978-1016 - Danish Vikings force Anglo-Saxons to pay 'Danegeld' tax. England 1016-1035 - Viking King Knut (Canute) the Great rules England.
Scotland 1050s - Earl Thorfinn Sigurdsson rules Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides and parts of Scotland and Ireland. England 1066 - Norman Conquest: end of Viking Age in England
Scotland 1150s - Scots drive Vikings from Scottish mainland.
Scotland 1468 - End of Scandinavian rule in Scottish islands.


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