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For nearly seven centuries Norwegian lords ruled Shetland, until they finally pawned the islands to a Scottish king ... in some parts of the Viking world. One famous early Irish text records ...

Later in his life the young King Alfred had to hide from the Vikings on a marshy island called Athelney, in Somerset. A famous story tells how, while sheltering in a cowherd's hut, the king got a ...