The first famous raids in your history books are going to happen in the seven eighties and seven nineties in england and and scottland. bio archaeology keeps um pushing the viking age earlier and earlier with more sites all the time that suggest it predates lindisfarne raid of seven ninety three by decades. It's pretty possible that this low level of piracy was going on all the time especially in scandinavia.
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.