Historic Replicas

The Vikings were a special breed, proud of their differences and often misunderstood. So what made them so different from other Anglo-Saxon groups?  Most would say that it was their failure to impose their culture on the people they conquered. They were content to rule and prosper, adopting the language and customs of the people they defeated.  This one element made them unqiue amoungst other warrior invaders of the time, and it also shorten their ruling years by not having as many viking axes working for them.

 The different branches of Viking invaders — the Rus, the Normans, the Danes in England, the Norse in Scotland and Ireland — became, after two or three generations, indistinguishable from the folk they conquered. When Danish Vikings swords swung down and invaded huge sections of England, the result was to cement the unity of the Anglo-Saxons against them.