The Vikings saga, part 3: Invasions and colonizations

3rd part: Invasions and colonizations.
Until 865, the Vikings mainly practiced raids and looting, although they occupied here and there some islands and counters, which also allowed trade.
Metal ingots, bullets of furs, and walrus tusks were thus sold in exchange for silver coins, wine, salt or Frankish swords.
They will return to West Francia, but it is the British Isles that will interest them first.
They had provisionally captured Winchester, the capital of King Æthelberht, in 861
But from 865, larger armies began to arrive on British shores, with the intention of conquering land and building settlements there.
The Vikings will occupy part of Ireland and settle for the first time in England thanks to what has been called the Great Danish Army, which will winter in East Anglia.
This has only a thousand men led by the brothers Ivar, Ubbe and, but will upset the political and social geography of the British Isles.
In 867, it moved north and, taking advantage of the civil war between the kings Osberht and Ælle, captured York, the largest city in Northumbria.
The two rivals are killed and replaced on the throne by Ecgberht, a puppet devoid of any real power.
In the Norwegian saga, The Tale of the Sons of Ragnarr (Ragnarssona þáttr), she allegedly had the Scandinavian leader Ragnar Lodbrok put to death, thrown into a snake pit.
The attack of 866 would then have been carried out by his sons to avenge their father.
Defeated, she would have been put to death by suffering the torture of the blood eagle, (blóðörn in Old Norse)
Ragnar's sons would have cut an eagle out of his back, separated all the ribs from his back with an ax to spread them like the wings of an eagle so as to tear his lungs out.
Nevertheless, the historical value of this version of events is questioned by historians ...
The continuation on the video.
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Maintenant disponible en anglais.
Et bientôt la 4ème partie, les derniers feux.
Now available in English.
And soon the 4th part, the last fires.

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Prochainement en langue anglaise (Coming soon in English).

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