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Scandinavian York or
Viking York (Old Norse:
Jórvík) is a term used by
historians for what is now
Yorkshire during the
period of
Scandinavian domination...
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Jorvik Viking Centre is a
museum and
visitor attraction in York, England,
containing lifelike mannequins and life-size
dioramas depicting Viking life in...
- the York
Archaeological Trust while excavating the
Viking settlement of
Jórvík (present-day York) in
northern England. The
coprolite was
found in 1972...
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Jorvik Radio is a
community radio station based in the city of York, in
North Yorkshire. The
studios are
located in Burnholme, York. It
takes its name...
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separate king of
Deira until the time of
Norse rule.
Viking kings ruled Jórvík (southern Northumbria, the
former Deira) from its
capital York for most...
- 'Ebora****' to the Romans, 'Eorfowic' to the
Angles and then, most famously, '
Jorvik' to the Vikings. Secondly, and much less reliable, is that it may come from...
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Bloodaxe (King of
Norway 930–934, King of
Orkney c. 937–954, and King of
Jórvík 948–49 and 952–954). She
appears prominently in
sagas such as ****rskinna...
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Danish army
conquered the city in 866, the name was
rendered in Old
Norse as
Jórvík. The Old
French and
Norman name of the city
following the
Norman Conquest...
- Army
moved north. In 867 they
captured Northumbria and its capital, York ("
Jórvík"),
defeating both the
recently deposed King
Osberht of
Northumbria and the...
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under its
Viking name "
Jorvik" was a
petty kingdom in the
Early Medieval period. In the
interval between the fall of
independent Jorvik under Eric Bloodaxe...
