XII. FROM VIKING CHAOS TO VIKING CONVERSION

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Danes on Jutland, Götar on Baltic Islands, Swedes

“Norway” and “Nordman”

The Gotstad Boat

Cambrai, Sens, Chartres, Fleury, Orleans

East Anglia

888: Cologne, Rouen, Nantes, Orleans, Bordeaux, London, York

Bizzerkers

819:  Noirmoutier Island

Monks of St. Philbert

Shetland and Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Ireland (Dublin, Cork, Limerick)

Wessex under King Alfred (w. Alphonso) “that handful of inspired laymen, who, in the ultimate crisis, have saved, under God, the Church and Christendom.”  Warren Carroll

Jarls, Thingvellir

Olaf Tryggavason

Sweyn the Fork-Bearded

King Cnut

William the Conqueror – Norman

Charles the Simple; Rollo

Santiago de Compostello; Poitou; Utrecht

St. Ansgar

Thorolf Lousebeard

Vladimir

Bishop of Winchester

Bishop Sigfrid

Thangbrand

Lief, son of Eric the Red

Thorkell the Tall

Ethelred the Unready

Olaf Haroldsson; King Olaf II; Saint Olaf

The battle of Stiklestad

St. Adalbert:  Archdiocese of Upsala