Keld is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire. It is in Swaledale, and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The name derives from the Viking word Kelda meaning a spring and the village was once called Appletre Kelde – the spring near the apple trees....
Sutherland is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. The name dates from the Viking era when the area was ruled by the Jarl of Orkney; although Sutherland includes some of the northernmost land on the island of Great Britain, it was called ...
When the weather is wet,The House of Manannanin Peel is hard to beat. Using state of the art displays, the centre explores the island’s Celtic, Viking and maritime heritage and traditions. The building itself is based on Manx vernacular architecture. There’s enough here to captivate all ...
Burnley reached first place on 20 November 1920, with a 2-2 draw at Oldham. Burnley remained leaders for the rest of the season. The Clarets’ unbeaten run went all through October, November, December, January, and February. At Christmas time, Burnley led the league by 3 points. On 15 ...
She saw the map as an attempt to make fools of the Nazis- who apart from being generally arrogant and brutal, in 1938 closed down the Jesuit college in Austria where Fischer was living in retirement- by faking proof of the Viking (blond Aryan hero-type) voyages to mainland (N.B. Apart...
The London Bus Museum is a purpose-built transport museum, open daily to the public and located at Brooklands in Weybridge, England.
The archipelago shows evidence of Bronze andIron Agesettlement as well as distinctiveVikinggraveyards and numerousmedievalgranite churches. The islands were Christianized during the 12th century by Swedish missionaries. In 1714 they were seized by theRussiantsar Peter I the Great after his naval victory...
The Viking period fostered a literary culture that, although oral at first, proved enduring and rich. The tales exchanged by the Vikings made their way into the written literature of Old Norse, which was composed especially in medieval Iceland and Norway. By that time the Nordic peoples were ...
foundation for the later kingdoms ofEssex,Sussex, andWessex(Saxons);East Anglia,Middle Anglia,Mercia, andNorthumbria(Angles); andKent(Jutes). Ethnically, the Anglo-Saxons actually represented an admixture of Germanic peoples with Britain’s preexistingCelticinhabitants and subsequentVikingand Danish ...
of the people until the first half of the 19th century. The number of Manx speakers is nownegligible, however. Norse (Viking) invasions began about 800ce, and the isle was adependencyofNorwayuntil 1266. During this period Man came under a Scandinavian system of government that has remained ...