Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - spreading fear and horror in their wake. They gave their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them?

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