Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | Categories: | Historians tell us
that the age of the Vikings began in the year 793, when a band
of Norse marauders sacked the British monastery of Lindisfarne.
It ended, they say, when the Viking descendant William of
Normandy conquered England, in 1066. During the three centuries
in-between the Vikings had a pretty full agenda, raiding and
plundering through Europe, trading as far east as the Caspian
Sea and settling parts of British Isles. They also managed to
find the time to discover Greenland, Iceland, and in the year
1,000, North America. But was that really the last time that
Viking set foot in North America?? This week on And The Winner
Is..."The Second Coming", the concluding part of Ideas' three-
part series on "The Viking Millenium." Chris Brookes takes a
look at the Vikings among us, a thousand years later after they
were supposed to have packed-up and faded away. Listen to The
Viking Millenium - Part Three