The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
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The Vikings and the Vikings in the West
Denish vikings began attacking and repeatedly sacked the town of dorastad which was sachshan raided no fewer than four times between 834 and 837. After emperor louis died in 840 loathar gave harold clack control of valkyrin a valuable province at the mouth of the ryan river but this did not stop the viking attacks they kept coming. They were mostly independent parties setting out from denmark as well as some swedish so now you have swedes who are seeing greater opportunities to the west even then to the east and they set out with mainly small mobile fleets of 10 to 12 ships carrying around 400 men.
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