Borderlands: South Yorkshire in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Periods. AD 450-1066

An accessible overview that will interest anyone who wants to know more about South Yorkshire during the Viking era. The period AD 450-1066 was a tumultuous time for the British Isles, and this was in particularly true of what became South Yorkshire. Existing on the borderland between the great Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, South Yorkshire remained contentious in the struggles between the rival polities, with land ceded and taken, over the best part of four centuries. Evid...