Exit the town, and his equipments will stay with you. Then press tab to go to the village interface. Find the archery trainer and spend 10 penings for borrowing his bow, arrows, and javelins. You might want to sell some stuff to make sure your inventory can carry a bunch of goods. After finish the monastery quest you should have gotten some startup money from Jarl Hrodulf Haraldsson to recruit 15 troops. Start doing some quests the people give you. The attacks of the Scandinavian Vikings on the coast of Britain began at the end of the VIII century.After the plunder of Woden Ric, the player is brought to a doctor near Doccinga. Initially, these were the Norwegians, who in 793 pillaged Lindisfarne, and soon founded colonies in Ireland, on the Orkney and Shetland Islands. In the first half of the 9th century, Danish raids began. The disintegration of the English state in the middle of the 9th century allowed the Vikings to proceed to the systematic conquest of England. The first large Danish army landed on the coast of East Anglia in 865, led by Ivar and Halfdan, the sons of the Danish king Ragnar Lodbrok.
Having made East Anglia its ground base, in 866 the Vikings captured York, and the following year defeated the army of Northumbria and put their protege Egbert I on the throne of this kingdom. Subjugating all of East Anglia, in 870 they moved to Wessex and set up camp in the Reading area. In 873, the Danes seized the eastern part of Mercia and put the rest of their appointee Kelvulf on the throne.Īlthough the Anglo-Saxons managed to win the battle of Ashdown, this did not stop the advance of the Vikings, and King Alfred the Great was forced to buy a truce. Danish military forces were constantly reinforced by the arrival of new Scandinavian troops in England. The first territorial division of the conquered lands between the Danish armies, indicating the transition of the Vikings to sedentary life, dates to 876. In 877, several Danes’ armies settled in eastern Mercia, which marked the beginning of the “Five Burgs area”. The advance of the Vikings was stopped only in 878 as a result of the victory of Alfred the Great’s Anglo-Saxon army under Eddington, which ensured the preservation of Wessex’s independence and led to the unification of the remnants of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into a single state. In 886, Alfred the Great got London from the Danes and concluded a peace treaty with Guthrum, the Viking leader of East Anglia, who recognized the independence of both states and established the western border of the Danish possessions. This document laid the foundation for the existence of Danelaw as a special state entity governed by its own laws. The treaty of 886 also fixed the civil equality of the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings in the territory of Danelaw. In 892 – 896, a new Viking army landed on the coast of Wessex, and the Danes of East Anglia and Yorkshire came to the rescue. However, King Alfred managed to create a national defense system and his own fleet, which allowed the Vikings to fight back. Later Periodīy the beginning of the X century, the Scandinavians occupied the territory from the Thames to the Tis, moved to a sedentary economy and created their own social organization. There was no political unity between the various Danelaw territories, but in the event of war they united against the Anglo-Saxons. By the systematic offensive on the Danish lands, the Anglo-Saxon state passed during the reign of Edward the Elder. By the year 919, after several years of uninterrupted campaigns in Danelaw, the power of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs was recognized by all of England south of the Humber. The entry into England, however, did not entail changes in the ethnic composition, social structure or the introduction of Anglo-Saxon law. Danelaw remained a virtually autonomous region.
However, while the English kings regained their power in Central England, Norwegian Vikings from Ireland invaded Northumbria and established their own independent kingdom in York.
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