Jorvik
Jórvík was the Viking name for the English city of York and the kingdom centred there.
York had been founded as the Roman legionary fortress of Eboracum and revived as the Anglo-Saxon trading port of Eoforwic. It was first captured in November 866 by a large army of Danish Vikings.
Jorvik Media
A map of the routes taken by the Great Heathen Army from 865 to 878
- Obverse (front) of a silver penny of w:Siefredus_of_Northumbria Small cross with four groups of three pellets in field.
A penny from York minted in Olaf Sihtricsson's time, the moneyer was Æthelfrith. The obverse shows a bird, presumed to be a Raven, the reverse a cross.
Hogbacks in All Saints Church, Brompton-in-Allerton, North Riding of Yorkshire. Elongated rounded stones with beasts clasping each end.[1]
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Other websites
- Brenda Ralph Lewis & David Nash Ford, "York: Viking Times" Archived 2017-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Timeline of Anglo-Saxon England Archived 2017-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Jorvik Viking Centre Archived 2004-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
- York Archaeological Trust
- Welcome to Jorvik Archived 2007-02-06 at the Wayback Machine: links on on-line resources
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