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Did the Vikings invade Sunderland?

Kenna

Kenna

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Or the area to later be known as Sunderland. Given our name stems from Anglo-Saxon from what I can find, you'd have thought Sunderland and Newcastle's spots in the North with great coasts to land on would result in more Viking influence.
 

Kenna said:
Or the area to later be known as Sunderland. Given our name stems from Anglo-Saxon from what I can find, you'd have thought Sunderland and Newcastle's spots in the North with great coasts to land on would result in more Viking influence.
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Looks like they plundered the mouth of the wear but the County of Durham was more heavily forested and the Vikings based in Yorkshire hunted there calling it fit only for beast and wild men. I think the Tyne was more attractive to them and there was a dialect in Tynemouth that only went extinct in the 1800s that was non-Angle so was that Danish in origin? The Vikings of Yorkshire reached agreement with the Angle royalty of Northumbria north of Durham which probably involved marriage so they had no need to subject Northumbria to military subjection although could have if needed. Their eyes turned south towards Mercia.
 
Mercia Blackcat said:
Looks like they plundered the mouth of the wear but the County of Durham was more heavily forested and the Vikings based in Yorkshire hunted there calling it fit only for beast and wild men. I think the Tyne was more attractive to them and there was a dialect in Tynemouth that only went extinct in the 1800s that was non-Angle so was that Danish in origin? The Vikings of Yorkshire reached agreement with the Angle royalty of Northumbria north of Durham which probably involved marriage so they had no need to subject Northumbria to military subjection although could have if needed. Their eyes turned south towards Mercia.
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Could read posts like this all day
 
Mercia Blackcat said:
Northumbria's fate was sealed at the Battle of York. The two kingdoms that constituted Northumbria, Bernicia (Northumberland and Durham) and Deira (Yorkshire) were in conflict. This was advantageous to the Vikings who executed two Angle kings including Aelle by Blood Eagle.
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Famously re-enacted in the classic fillum.

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They got as far as ye old tavern and got kicked to fuck off what was known as the first milky bar kid.


Serious note I’d imagine they would have at least passed through on raids.
 
Mercia Blackcat said:
Also in the series Vikings although the series compresses the timeline overall.
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I have Norwegian relatives and when we went to Oslo we went to see a reconstructed Viking longboat. They were not that big to be honest and certainly hard to describe as ships. How the hell they even crossed the North Sea in them, never mind the Atlantic is amazing.
mackem1989 said:
They got as far as ye old tavern and got kicked to fuck off what was known as the first milky bar kid.


Serious note I’d imagine they would have at least passed through on raids.
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The Wear may not have been as sailable as the Tyne which I imagine they sailed someway up stream.
 
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