The vikings by Mariam!!!
Where did vikings settle? Some viking ships braught families to britain looking for land to farm. Good farmland was scarce in the vikings’ own countries.The parts of Britain where most Vikings settled were northern Scotland and eastern England. For 500 years, from about AD 900, Vikings ruled the north of Scotland, the Orkney and Shetland isles and the Hebrides islands off the west coast. In Ireland, Vikings founded the city of Dublin. Viking areas in east and northern England became known as the Danelaw. Viking settlements brought new words into the English language, and new ideas about government too. For a short time England had Danish kings (King Cnut and his sons, from 1016 to 1042). The vikings in britain Southern britain (england) had been settled by the anglo-saxons. The vikings fought the local people, then sailed away.This first raid is recorded in the anglo-saxson chroncile. It was a fierce struggle between english and vikings. The english called the vikings invaders ‘danes’ but they came from Norway as well as Denmark. Norwegian Vikings or ‘Norse’ sailed to Scotland, where they made settlements in the north and on the Orkney and Shetland islands. Vikings also settled on the Isle of Man. Vikings raided Wales, but few made homes there.





