she asks. Childs is planning a commemorative event in Gainsborough in February to mark the life, and death, of the first Viking king of England. Despite his short reign, Childs says Forkbeard left ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings ... as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ‘King of all England’. One story tells how ...

A rare coin minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king is "the first in the country" to ... who led a Danish invasion of Anglo-Saxon England and waged war against Alfred the ...

A lost Viking army which was a "key part ... a "large heathen army" began to hack its way across England in AD866, toppling Anglo-Saxon kings until being halted by Alfred the Great.