Download or read book Viking Age Yorkshire written by Matthew Townend and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 866, the city of York was captured by a 'great army' of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader 'shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves'. This conquest and settlement marked the beginning of two centuries of Scandinavian dominance in Yorkshire, a defining period in the county's history.