The
Viking
Age
in
Britain
began
about
1
,
200
years
____________________
in
the
9th
Century
AD
and
lasted
for
____________________
over
200
years
.
About
the
year
800
,
bands
of
fierce
____________________
began
to
attack
our
____________________
.
They
were
the
Vikings
,
who
were
also
called
____________________
(
although
they
didn't
all
come
from
Denmark
)
.
The
Vikings
came
across
the
North
Sea
,
originally
just
to
raid
,
____________________
and
____________________
.
In
time
,
however
,
the
Vikings
made
their
home
in
the
UK
.
They
____________________
the
Saxons
out
of
part
of
the
country
and
took
it
for
themselves
.
King
Alfred
,
the
____________________
king
of
a
place
called
____________________
,
fought
them
in
a
great
battle
,
but
he
could
not
fully
defeat
them
.
Instead
,
the
Saxons
and
the
Vikings
agreed
to
____________________
the
country
,
and
the
Vikings
had
a
part
of
England
that
was
known
as
____________________
.
