The Vikings arrive

Around  the 8th century a new sea people threatened Anglo Saxon England. Savage sea-rovers or Vikings swarmed out of their overcrowded homelands in Denmark and Scandinavia. They attacked points all over Britain. Fierce and Pagan, nowhere was safe. Scotland and the Hebrides; the North-East and Lindisfarne; Ireland and Dublin; the North of England and points all around the coast.

The Vikings were yet another wave of Nordic Aryans whose time had come. They ranged as far as Constantinople in the East and America in the West. Strong evidence now shows that Vinland mentioned in the Viking Sagas was actually part of North America.

The Vikings raided up the River Seine and took Paris. They also settled Normandy, which takes its name from them "Northmen". Throughout Europe swept the prayer "God preserve us from the fury of the Northmen".

The Vikings especially settled in present day Eire, the Isle of Man and Northern England. Northern England and the North Midlands became the "Danelaw" under permanent occupation by the Vikings. Europe and England trembled before the arrival of the famous "Great Army" under its Ravens Banner and led by three warrior brothers, the most famous being Guthrun. The Great Army was eventually defeated by the Anglo-Saxons and the Raven Banner fell.

Alfred, King of England fought a long and gruelling guerilla campaign against the Vikings and was eventually successful. At one time, during the reign of Cnut (King Canute), England and Norway were all part of one great Viking kingdom.

The Northmen's capital was at York (Viking: Jeorvik), originally called Eboracum. It was in this area at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, that the Anglo-Saxon King, Harold, finally smashed the power of the Vikings.

The many Norse who had settled in Britain blended in easily with their Anglo-Saxon cousins, again adding their fierce blood to our homogenous racial admixture. Place names from these times abound - the most famous of course being York, and it is sobering to think that that fortress of the New World Order - New York, owes its very name to our Viking ancestors. What would they think of that multi-cultural cesspit today?

During each of the periods we have described, invaders were met by the natives of Britain with shield and sword - a far cry from how we have met recent invasions - or immigration as it is now called.

I am not suggesting of course that we can pick up sword and shield and repel the hordes of fraudulent asylum seekers now battering at the gates of Britain, but it shows how as a people, we have become soft and flabby when faced with drastic inroads of a truly foreign people!