The Vikings were making deals with local Viking groups on the scene and they often did these sort of joint expedition arrangements. There may have been eight 10,000 Vikings which you know that's a ton of Vikings supposedly they just want passage right to raid down river. According to abbo who may have been in the room again what can we trust what can't we trust he's got his own reasons for writing this He says 700 ships show up in the river uh which is a huge exaggeration no matter how you slice it.