1. The Scandinavian Invasion: The Viking Age

HELLO! Sorry for the absence of time without editing anything new, I'm here and come back much stronger. Now let's talk about the Viking age, every day I'll post something new, besides, it served me well for an English class I'm doing right now, (linguistic) and that from here, send a greeting to the teacher.

1. INTRODUCTION

Near the end of the Old English period English underwent a third foreign
influence, the result of contact with another important language, the Scandinavian. The Germanic inhabitants of the Scandinavian peninsula and Denmark were one-time neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons and closely related to them in language and blood, For some centuries the Scandinavian had remained quietly in their Northen
home, but, in the eighth century a change, possibly economic, possibly political
occurred in the area and provoked among them a spirit of unrest and adventurous enterprise. They began a series of attacks upon all the lands adjacent to the North Sea and the Baltic. Their activities began in plunder and ended in conquest. The Danes were the group who founded the dukedom of Normandy and finally conquered England.
Their main achievement was reached in the beginning of the eleventh century when
Cnut, King of Denmark, obtained the throne of England, conquered Norway, and from
his English capital ruled the greater part of the Scandinavian world. The period of their activity, extending from the middle of the eight century to the beginning of the eleventh, is popularly known as the Viking Age.