The Viking settlement of Yorkshire was not merely peaceful partition — it involved violence against existing Anglian landholders. Place-name evidence shows Viking settlement replacing English names across the vales and dales, while surviving Anglian sculpture at Ilkley, Otley, and Collingham records the displaced elite. The dales contained pockets of English resistance even as the lowlands were absorbed into the Danelaw. The boundary between English and Viking-settled land was contested for decades.
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