The 993 Norse sweep down the Northumberland coast from Bamburgh to the Tyne demonstrated that even the nominally Scandinavian-influenced north of England was not immune to sea-borne raiding during the Second Viking Age.
Norse raiders: c. 2,000–4,000. Northumberland settlements: c. 300–1,000.
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