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The Northmen in Britain

Chapter 39: Transcriber’s Notes
By Eleanor Hull
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The narrative traces the arrival and expansion of Norse and Danish seafarers in the British Isles, describing coastal raids, trade, and the establishment of settlements and earldoms. It interweaves material from Norse sagas and British and Irish chronicles to recount kingships, major battles, dynastic struggles, and episodes of conversion and settlement across Orkney, the Hebrides, Ireland, and England. Individual sagas and episodes illuminate Viking society, ship warfare, and cultural encounters, while later chapters follow the rise of Danish rule in England, notable rulers, and the gradual fading of the Viking era. Illustrations, maps, and source notes accompany the account.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, renumbered, and placed just before the Index.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Index entries were printed in boldface in the original book, but representing boldface in the Plain Text version of this eBook would make the Index harder to read, so boldface has been used only in the HTML versions of this eBook.

Page 22: “During the reigns of Alfred and his brother” should be “son”.