Q My Scandinavian (Viking) ancestors went to England, and hundreds of years later to the United States. I would like to know more about their origins in Yorkshire.
A Although Viking raiders first struck England in present-day Northumberland—notably the monastery of Lindisfarne in 793—their largest settlements would be farther south in Yorkshire.
After the invasion of the “Great Heathen Army” in 865, the English King in Old Norse). Your Viking ancestors could have arrived there from anywhere in Scandinavia, although Danes and Norwegians were most common.
