The Viking raids in the Rhineland were part of a series of invasions of Francia by the Vikings that took place during the final decades of the 9th century...

Viking activity in the British Isles occurred during the Early Middle Ages, the 8th to the 11th centuries CE, when Scandinavians travelled to the British...

Alexandria, and Constantinople−and perhaps overwintering in Francia. Evidence for Viking activity in Iberia vanishes after the 860s, until the 960s–70s, when...

The siege of Paris of 845 was the culmination of a Viking invasion of West Francia. The Viking forces were led by a Norse chieftain named "Reginherus"...

Rollon; died between 928 and 933) was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France. He emerged...

Frankish Empire (Latin: Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian...

coastal areas were lost to Francia during the reign of Louis the Pious (814–840). But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal family caused...

behind your back in a field; you never know when you may need all of sudden your spear." As war was the most prestigious activity in Viking Age Scandinavia...

western isles well into the 12th century. In this era, Viking activity started with raids on Christian lands in England and eventually expanded to mainland...

family. In 885 CE, Eivor is recruited by Toka Sinricsdottir, a Viking raider from Francia, to partake in a planned raid on the city of Paris. In Melun,...