The 890’s – storms are brewing in Valhalla. It's the final years of the reign of Alfred the Great. After a period of relative ...

In Vikings: Valhalla, Emma had two sons with King Aethelred: Edward and Alfred, who she sent to Normandy ... was restore the ...

In relation to Alfred the Great of Wessex and his successors in creating ... It was the Northumbrian’s expulsion of their last viking king Erik in 954 and acceptance of the Wessex king Eadred ...

By the ninth century Wessex was at a low point ... family were either killed in battle against the Vikings or politically outmaneuvered. King Alfred’s three older brothers had all briefly ...

As King of Wessex, Alfred continued defending his kingdom ... formally establishing a boundary between Wessex and the Viking-controlled areas. The latter came to be known as the Danelaw. ( ...

Before he was the great ruler who fought against Viking invaders, Alfred was born the youngest child of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, in Wantage in 849. READ MORE: Teenage cancer survivor named as ...

The hoard contained coins of Alfred the Great of Wessex and his less ... Ceolwulf II was a puppet of the Vikings and a minor nobleman rather than a proper king. But the coins tell a very different ...

marched the Viking army to Wessex to defeat King Alfred. A series of cat and mouse raids began, with neither King Alfred nor Guthrum gaining the upper hand. That was until a violent storm at sea ...

Evidence shows Kent remained a wealthy and important place - largely because of the strength of church - despite the Viking raids King Alfred of Wessex successfully drove back Viking raids in Kent ...

Sure enough, Ivar has a revelation: It’s time to take the fight back to Wessex and King Alfred and ... a strategic retreat, the Vikings are after only one thing: Alfred himself.