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Over a thousand people dressed in custom Viking suits and wielded axes, swords and torches as they marched through Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly islands, culminating in ...

Viking warriors fought using long swords and axes. The first Viking raid recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was around AD787. It was the start of a fierce struggle between the Anglo-Saxons and ...

These became Viking land. Orkney became an important ... they would attack with their swords and axes, while defending themselves with shields. The Vikings built fast 'dragonships' and 'longships ...