The practice supposedly made the transition to the afterlife safe for the dead ... for the Viking culture, because of the ...

So it was that in his early twenties, Constantine mac Áed became King of Pictland. The kingdom had been nearly destroyed by the Vikings, but its peoples, Picts and Gael, faced with the prospect ...

On 22 March 871, West Saxon forces met the incoming Viking invasion, and a brutal battle took place. Much of this conflict is lost to history, including the location of the battle, as reports vary ...