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Vikings in Spain

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Vikings in Spain

In 844, the Vikings first arrived at Astudias in the North of Spain. After that, we have several big campaigns. There are raids because we have evidence of citizens asking for help to descend themselves against Vikings. But really, in the middle of the 10th century, we meet a huge increase in the number of raids. We have attacks in 1960, 1964, 1965, and 1968. And I suspect, this is my personal opinion, that this extreme activity is on the one hand, that there is an obvious increase in activity. It's possible that this kind of activity was present before the mid 10th century. So we keep getting records of raids until the end of the

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