TOWNEND, MATTHEW. — Viking Age Yorkshire.

Pickering: Blackthorn Press, 2014. 9781906259396. 1st edition. "In 866, the city of York was captured by a 'Great Army' of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader 'shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves'. This book offers the first full-length study of Yorkshire's Viking centuries, from the fall of York to the Norman Conquest of 1066." Pp.xii/308, 2 maps + 28 figure illustrations. Paperback. VG.