No Gods But the North: The Coalition of 865 and the Remaking of Britain

What does it truly feel like to watch the world you know systematically dismantled by an unstoppable force? For centuries, history has treated the year 865 AD as just another entry in a laundry list of Viking raids. We are taught to look at the Great Heathen Army through the sterile lens of hindsight, mapping out lines and dates as if the conquest of Britain was an inevitability. But for the men a...