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Multiple peoples have successfully conquered the country in the past, but some campaigns are better known than others.
After decades of conflict, England enjoyed a degree of stability ... ruled by Alfred the Great—is known to have withstood the Viking invasion. Alfred and his son, Edward, built up an army ...
Harald Hardrada was a Viking and king of Norway ... had been waiting in the south of England, anticipating an invasion from William from France. He quickly marched his army 185 miles north ...
The conquest of England was a task far greater than anything the Vikings had ever attempted before. England was divided into four powerful, well-organised kingdoms: Northumbria, East Anglia ...
On 22 March 871, West Saxon forces met the incoming Viking invasion, and a brutal battle ... whose vision inspired the formation of England. Less is known about the warrior bishop Heahmund ...
The Viking invasions eventually smashed the state system of the English. Wessex survived and, in the reign of King Alfred (d. AD 899) a campaign began to bring the whole of England under the rule ...
Above: Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the Norman invasion of England. Countless sailing experiments with replica ships continue to confirm the excellence of Viking ship design.
For centuries—indeed, ever since Viking raiders savagely attacked England's Lindisfarne monastery ... and it was an invasion of the sanctitude of Christ and their religion.