#viking invasions

[maypoleman1]

20th November

St Edmund’s Day

The Martyrdom of Edmund from the Passio Sancto Eadmundi. Source: Wikipedia

Today is St Edmund’s Day. Also known as Edmund the Martyr, he was king of East Anglia when the Anglo-Saxon kingdom was attacked by the Viking Great Heathen Army in 869. Edmund led his soldiers out to oppose the invaders but the East Anglians were defeated. Whether Edmund was killed in the battle of Hoxne in Suffolk or taken prisoner by the Danes and murdered thereafter is a matter of dispute. Tradition has it that the Vikings offered to spare Edmund his life and return him to the throne of East Anglia if he would embrace the Norse pagan religion and rule as a Scandinavian puppet. Edmund supposedly piously refused and paid a grisly price: the Viking warriors tied the king to a tree and shot him full of arrows. Sainthood and martyrdom were then mere formalities. Other traditions make Edmund less heroic. It is said that he fled the field of Hoxne and hid under Goldbrook Bridge, but that the glint of his royal golden spurs was spotted by a newly wed couple who immediately gave him away. As the king was hustled away by the Danes, Edmund cursed all married couples crossing the bridge and to this day, newlyweds in Hoxne take an alternative route home.

Edmund was buried in a Suffolk town which appropriately became named Bury St Edmunds thereafter. His feast day remained popular in the county with a special bun being baked and issued to schoolchildren every November 20th. Unsurprisingly it was called St Edmund’s Bun.

#st Edmund #battle of hoxne #suffolk #great heathen army #viking invasions #east Anglia #Edmund the martyr #goldbrook bridge #st Edmund’s bun #bury st edmunds

[mapsontheweb]

Viking and Magyar invasions in the 9th and 10th century.

by dodi_maps

#maps #igsourced #dodi_maps #vikings #magyars #invasions

[illustratus]

The Landing of the Danes by Henry Justice Ford

illustration from 'The History of England' by Rudyard Kipling, 1911

#danes #danish #vikings #england #art #illustration #henry justice ford #invasion #conquest #history #the history of england #rudyard kipling #denmark #viking age #viking #english

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 9 September:

In the Liturgical calendar, this is the feast day of St Ciarán of Clonmacnoise. He was one of the early Irish monastic saints and Irish bishop. He is sometimes called Ciarán the Younger to distinguish him from Saint Ciarán of Saighir. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He dies on this date in 545. 872 – Earliest verifiable date of a Viking invasion of Ireland in Dunrally. 1806 – Death…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #9 September #Ciarán the Younger #Cliffs of Moher #Clonmacnois #Dáil Eireann #Dublin #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise #The Cuba Five #Today in Irish History #Viking invasion of Ireland

[majachee]

Yew (Yr) and Kit silhouette and redesign wips !!

They develop a very close queerplatonic bond in the story! Yew is a larger than average, early Norwegian Forest-inspired feral cat, and Kit is a small, short-haired ticked tabby with some British Shorthair influence (mainly the face)

#their story takes place near the end of the Viking Age and beginning of the Norman invasion. fyi #Kit's name comes from Old/Middle English and Old Norse words for cat/kitten! #so yeah. Kit's name is just a shortened version of ''Kitty!'' because she was a monastery barn cat #majart #wip #sketch #yew oc #kit oc #xenofiction #oc tag #viking cats YAYYY

[blogtib]

#viking #warrior #drakkar #invasion

[thewritingpossum]

I fully agree that presenting the Vikings as some sort of evil, uniquely violent barbarians who only wanted to commit destruction is very much innacurate but it is pretty hilarious to me how many modern historians are like "the christians only presented the vikings as a bunch of looting murderers because they kept looting and killing them, so irrational 🙄😤"

#like i'm sorry but maybe the people who experience viking raids had some reasons not the be their biggest fans idk #and there's the insistance that vikings were farmers and merchants before anything which... #it's not wrong per say at all but let's be realistic for two minutes #if your neighbor who happens to be a farmer come and do home invasion in neighbourhood that's what's they're gonna be remember for #and that's not necessarily unfair tbh #now once again acting like it was unique or a proof of their inherently violent nature or anything of the sort is silly but still

[apersonwholikeslotus]

97% of the time I post stuff talking about small England I need you all to know I am shoving all of those in between 449-793 AD.

#Post initial Anglo Saxon invasion #Pre Viking age #It’s a narrow time slot but oh boy am I gonna shove a lot in it #aph england #hws england #hetalia

[tyrannuspitch]

random overthinking thought i need to purge from my brain:

whatever spell makes loki look asgardian probably doesn't just change his skin tone and maybe suppress his ice magic / change his temperature / etc. it probably also limited his growth in childhood. because like... typical adult jotuns stand at, what, 10'? 12'? so just having a baby who is currently very small by jotun standards, even if you know there is already a medical condition (ie alien dwarfism or something) suppressing his growth... that still doesn't guarantee that he won't end up like. 7 or 8 foot. which is still pretty damn conspicuous on asgard. so whether he ever actually threatened to grow that tall or not... they probably had measures in place to prevent it.

#space viking tag #fucked up and invasive but it was already all of those things :/ #and i mean i guess they COULD have just got rlly lucky #but idk... i would need to check and it's probably hard to tell... but i'm pretty sure young loki was taller than young thor #and adult loki is juuust shorter #so. #there's that. #also just what are the chances? this one jotun alone among jotuns can FLAWLESSLY pass for asgardian with nothing but a change of skin tone #and he also happens to be exactly the one we need for our political machinations? #:/ #meta #ch: loki #th: mirrors + masks #th: disability #th: abuse + empire #th: ethnicity

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning, innocent victims 🌞

#good morning #good #good morning message #good morning messages #morning #message #morning message #the good morning man #thegoodmorningman #thegoodmornman #good morning man #therealgoodmorningman #viking #vikings #invasion #seize the day #carpe diem #pillaging #take whatever you want

[glorious-viking-bastard]

BACK HOME TODAY/TOMORROW, WISH ME LUCK FOR THE 15 HOUR FLIGHT AND 11 HOUR PARIS STOPOVER X.X

#viking #viking's japan invasion #help me im going to be stuck in france

[maypoleman1]

26th October

Alfred the Great

Source: Historic U.K. website

On this day in 899 AD, Alfred the Great died. Rarely has the epithet “The Great” been more deserved. This extraordinary early medieval King of Wessex was unseated from his throne by a Viking invasion and forced to hide out in the boggy fens of the island of Athelney. But from here, Alfred launched a guerrilla war against Guthrum, the Danish usurper, and emerged eventually to defeat decisively the Danes at the battle of Edington. After requiring Guthrum to convert to Christianity and packing him and his men off to rule East Anglia, Alfred got to work. He developed a system of strategically placed forts called burghs to thwart future Viking attacks; he developed a navy; he promoted literacy in his court; he commissioned the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; he supported the Church and he revised the mess that were the existing Germanic legal traditions into something resembling an English legal code.

It is extraordinary then that today Alfred is chiefly remembered for letting a set of cakes burn. Allegedly, while still hiding out from the Danes in Athelney, the despondent king was staying in a peasant’s home and promised the lady of the house he would watch her baking cakes while she completed an errrand. Lost in thought, he forgot about the cakes and the horrified woman returned to fund them burned to a cinder. Despite royal apologies, the enraged housewife supposedly scolded and beat Alfred for ruining their supper, king or no king. Quite what this almost certainly invented tale is supposed to represent is anyone’s guess, unless it be the general uselessness of men in the home.

#alfred the great #Athelney #Alfred burns the cakes #battle of edington #Guthrum #Viking invasions #wessex #Anglo Saxon chronicle

[subjects-of-the-king]

Here is another informative and well-done documentary I watched that is from the YouTube channel “History Time.” This one is shorter than the one that I shared last week, but it focuses more on a specific topic. Like the other documentary, the documentary concerns Britain, and, as can be guessed from the title, Vikings.

#alfred the great #britain #documentary #education #england #history #information #interesting #invasion #medieval #middle ages #ragnar lodbrok #research #sailing #video #vikings #war #warfare #warriors #youtube

[eirikr-inn-rowdy]

I was still using the term "Anglo-Saxon" in an academic sense, because I falsely believed it was a legitimate academic term.

It's not. It's just a racist term. Here's an excellent article about it.

#anglo saxon #last time I use that tag #old norse #english history #scandinavian history #old english #englisc #angles #angeln #saxons #saxony #saxon invasion #saxons and vikings #vikings #smithsonian

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 9 September:

#OTD in Irish History | 9 September:

In the Liturgical calendar, this is the feast day of St Ciarán of Clonmacnoise. He was one of the early Irish monastic saints and Irish bishop. He is sometimes called Ciarán the Younger to distinguish him from Saint Ciarán of Saighir. He was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He dies on this date in 545. 872 – Earliest verifiable date of a Viking invasion of Ireland in Dunrally. 1806 – Death…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #9 September #Ciarán the Younger #Cliffs of Moher #Clonmacnois #Dáil Eireann #Dublin #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise #The Cuba Five #Today in Irish History #Viking invasion of Ireland

[jenmedsbookreviews]

Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

Today I'm sharing my thoughts on the brand new thriller from Tracy SIerra, Nightwatching. @tsierraauthor @vikingbooksuk #books #nightwatching #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #thriller #crimefiction

Today I am sharing my thoughts on Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra. I was sucked in by the blurb on this on, so thanks to publisher, Viking, for the early copy via Netgalley. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 01 February 2024Publisher: Viking Continue reading Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

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#Home Invasion #Psychological Fiction #Thriller #Tracy Sierra #Viking