Daily Medieval

It may well have been news of the wholesale slaughter of Danes  in 1002 that was ordered by King Æthelred that motivated Sweyn Forkbeard t...

One site of the  St. Brice's Day Massacre  in 1002 seems to have been Oxford. Æthelred called it in a 1004 charter "a most just ext...

Clashes with Danes in England resulted in establishing the Danelaw, originally just the set of Danish laws agreed upon with Alfred the Great...

European history classrooms in America often talk about the Danish King Cnut (Canute) and his conquest of England. The modern world also he...