The late 9th Century coin was found by a metal detectorist near Thetford earlier this year A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king is "the first in the country" to ...
The buried longship at Gjellestad would have looked like this famous Oseberg ship on display ... taken many forms down the ages, and for the Vikings what really counted was the longship.
Later in his life the young King Alfred had to hide from the Vikings on a marshy island called Athelney, in Somerset. A famous story tells how, while sheltering in a cowherd's hut, the king got a ...