The Great Heathen Army's conquest of Northumbria in 866-867 destroyed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom at a stroke. The land north of the Tees became Viking territory; the old Bernician heartland in Northumberland survived under local English lords paying tribute to the new Viking rulers at York
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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