![]() ![]() The dearth of records can be viewed purely as a gap in the tradition, brought about through a nadir in the writing of history, rather than due to an absence of events. When Walther Vogel, the great historian of the Northmen in France, wrote this in 1906 he was talking about events in the Frankish kingdoms in the first decade or so of the tenth century. But the same applies to the history of north-west England at the same time. It was during this period that the first viking bases appeared on the coasts of Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. Over the coming decades these Scandinavians eventually spread out, stopped raiding, and settled down to farm and fish.Īs F. ![]() Wainwright, perhaps the greatest historian of the Scandinavian arrival in north-west England, wrote:Īs a mere episode the Norse immigration must be considered outstanding. It was an event of permanent historical importance. The twelfth-century chronicler John of Worcester tells that in 914: Óttar’s story can tell us just a little about the nature and timing of all this. The Pagan pirates, who nearly nineteen years before had crossed over to France, returned to England from the province called Lydwiccum (Brittany), under two chiefs: Ochter and Hroald, and sailing round the coast of Wessex and Cornwall at length entered the mouth of the river Severn. Without any loss of time they fell upon the country of the Northern Britons, and carried off almost every thing they could find on the banks of the river. ![]()
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