In England, the Vikings’ influence was both direct and indirect. For the next 300 years, Scandinavian Vikings formed a large part of English history - as plunderers, merchants, mercenaries, conquerors, settlers and kings. It was also around AD 800 that the aggressive Viking expeditions and the expansion, which are so characteristic of Viking times, took off in Western Europe. This attack has also traditionally been nominated as the start of the Viking Age because from here is the oldest precise written information about a plundering expedition (in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). AD 793 heralded the start of many years of plundering attacks in England.
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