Ruler of the Hebrides Dates Title Notes Unknown father of Thórir: 848 King of Viking Scotland: According to the Orkneyinga saga Rognvald Eysteinsson had a number of sons including Ivar and Thorir the Silent, Ivar being killed in battle during Harald Fairhair's expedition to the west.
The last Viking king of York, Eric Bloodaxe, was only expelled from Northumbria in 954 AD, after Æthelstan's rule.
According to Irish sources Thorir was the heir of a king of "Viking Scotland" who took an army to Ireland in 848. The Viking Age (c. 790-1100 CE) transformed every aspect of the cultures the Norse came in contact with. In that same year the Scots took Edinburgh from the English. The Viking army moved south and, over the years, almost conquered the whole of England.
Watch Now Hardrada translates as “hard ruler”, a reputation Harald lived up to with his aggressively militaristic approach to leadership and tendency to settle disputes brutally. When the Vikings arrive, his father, Lord Uhtred, rides out to give battle and is predictably slain; the boy Uhtred is captured.
The Viking Age (c.793–1066 AD) is the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America. Harald Hardrada is said to have led the last great Viking raid of England in 1066, where his army was defeated and he was killed. The Viking leader Halfdan Ragnarsson became the first Danish King of York, which became the Viking capital of England. The Last Kingdom begins in 866, the year that Vikings first seized control of York.
A Viking army first wintered on the Seine river in 851, and there joined forces with the king's enemies, the Bretons, and Pippin II. Alfred of Wessex stood in their way. Ragnar’s history is well documented in the old the old writings, where he is father to many sons, including Bjorn Ironside, Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan Ragnarsson, … Rollo (Norman: Rou; Old Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; c. 860 – c. 930 AD) was a Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in northern France.He is sometimes called the first Duke of Normandy.His son and grandson, William Longsword and Richard I, used the titles "count" (Latin comes or consul) and "prince" (princeps), respectively. This was the beginning of the Viking occupation of York. What Harald Hardrada would have had to say in the aftermath of the Battle of Stamford Bridge is imagined in the film The Last Viking on HistoryHit.TV. For much of the time, Jorvik and the Kingdom of York were ruled by Vikings, but there were periods when the Viking rulers were no more than 'petty kings', themselves ruled over by the English kings of Wessex. Uhtred is a child and heir to Bebbanburg (Bamburgh) in Northumbria.