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It's spring, 841 AD. A fleet of longships cuts through the water. It is a vast armada vessel stretching as far as the eye can see, maybe 200 or more on a northerly wind. Sails full, the boats zip along, pulling up to 20 knots. On board are literally thousands of Viking warriors racing against the swell. The men check their weapons, adjust gear, utter oaths to the gods. Turning westward now into a wide bay, there is enough momentum to carry the first wave of longships right up into the shallow curve of sand. It is an amphibious landing at full throttle. Beyond the dunes, the defenders, local klansmen, lie in wait. They rattle clubs against rough wooden shields. What they lack in weaponry, they make up for with intimidation, but they will prove no contest to the Norsemen. The warriors incoming, now wading through the surf. At their head is a man named Torgest, a fearsome Viking chieftain. And with the battle scars to prove it, he is no armchair general, but a man to lead from the front. On his signal, the men form into squads, mustering behind shield walls. As they advance up the beach, a rain of arrows falls ineffectively upon them. The defenders put up a valiant fight. Make no mistake, it is true what they say. These men are nothing if not brave. Vicious, too. They don't take prisoners, just their heads. But they are poorly equipped, badly organized. With the fighting over, Torgess surveys the land. Into the bay empties a wide river. It winds through lush green fields and rolling hills. There is a settlement on the estuary, a few wooden huts and coracles, a fishing village. This country, Torges knows, doesn't have anything approximating towns, let alone cities. Not like England or Frankia but there is something else. This land has something beyond compare. As the western center of the new religion, it is home to some of the finest treasures in Christendom. Its monasteries and religious centers are repositories for gold and silver. Home to exquisite metalwork and precious stones. The fishing village is swiftly razed. The inhabitants flee or are put to the sword. The locals call the area with its dark swirling tidal waters the black Pool in the Gaelic language. Dovlin, Dublin. I'm ian glenn from the noiser podcast network. This is real vikings part 7. In this series we've seen Vikings go from raiding to trading to settling. We have witnessed them sweep into England and northern France. We've watched them descend the waterways of Russia. Scandinavians have reached Spain, North Africa, Italy, Constantinople, Baghdad. They have set foot in Persia. In Eastern Europe, they have founded a Norse Slavic state, the Kievan Rus. Meanwhile, dissenters, non conformists have abandoned the old homelands and sailed into the North Atlantic. They have founded a Nordic utopia, Iceland. Vikings were never a flash in the pan. By the late 9th century, they have been on the scene for over a hundred years. Closer to home in Anglo Saxon England, a great heathen army is about to pile on the misery, marauding up and down the country. It will result in partition with half of England set aside for Scandinavian rule a state within a state known as the Danelaw. But this is only part of the story of what is happening across the British or if you prefer, the Anglo Celtic isles. We haven't spoken much yet about Ireland at the start of the Viking age. The tactics employed against it come straight out of the standard playbook. Raiding parties menace coastal communities. They go for the usual soft targets. Remote monasteries. In 795, two years after the historic raid on Lindisfarne, Vikings sack a number of holy sites, though here the perpetrators are Norwegian rather than Danish. Professor Davide Zori.
