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800		 Vikings settled the Faeroe Islands in the 8th century replacing Irish settlers. In 1948 the group of 18 islands, located between Britain and Iceland, became an autonomous region of Denmark.
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866 Nov
 Danish Viking Ivar the Boneless first invaded the trading port of Eoforwic, the old Roman settlement of Eboracum. The Jorvic Viking settlement was discovered in 1976 when workers in York excavated for a new shopping center.
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1066 Sep 25
 King Harold Godwinson II marched north and attacked the Vikings at the Battle of AA Bridge in Yorkshire. Harald III Hardrada (51), King of Norway (1046-1066), died in battle. Godwinson’s forces destroyed the Vikings who returned to Norway in 24 of their 300 ships. Marching north to face a Norwegian invasion force commanded by King Harald Sigurdsson, aka Hardraade, and by his usurper brother, Tostig, Godwinson defended his crown at Stamford Bridge, resulting in a Saxon victory and the deaths of both Harald and Tostig. Soon afterward, however, Harold had to march south to face another invading contender for his throne, Duke William the Bastard of Normandy, who defeated and killed Harold at Hastings on October 14, and took the English crown as William the Conqueror.
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2016 Jun
 In western Denmark seven Viking-era (800-1050) bracelets, weighing a total of almost one kg (2.2 pounds), were discovered near Vejen by people using metal detectors. A gold chain was found in the same field in 1911.
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2017 Aug 20
 Norway’s director of the University Museum of Bergen said some 400 Viking objects were stolen at some time over the weekend of August 11-13, describing the loss as "immeasurable".
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