Continuing his summer challenge, the next essay from Ben Patterson The previous essay described, among many other points, the exploratory voyages of the Norsemen, taking them from Iceland to eastern Canada and establishing settlements in all of these regions. There was one other major place upon which the Vikings established themselves, but it was far less exploration and far more conquest – the British Isles. Let us set the scene; prior to 865 AD, what we know today as Engla