Viking Legend: Ragnar Lothbrok
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The sons of lothbrock ended up right across the isles. They end up onther dublin. Becomes a very powerful scandinavian earldom that's still threatening kings in england into the reign of canute and edward the confessor. You have this initial stage of raiding who are basinly war bands. But then you do find vikings who do wish to settle, and that was alfred the great's genius actually,. Rather than just keep paying off viking war bands, offer them the same terms that he has to live with. And so they become settlers. In our local environment, that covered the whole of the culture province of the north
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