Viking Surnames Across Ireland

[Grace O'Malley]

Typical Vikings. Always going after the weakest link. You have to give them credit though. They were opportunistic and they development quite a few Irish towns into prosperous trading posts.

Vikings didn't make much inroads into places like Spain because they were heavily rebuffed but I guess the further you are away from your homeland and bases it makes it more difficult to get reinforcements and also find a safe haven. They only had settlements in a few places and raided the coasts of Europe. Not sure how accurate this map is but it is the best I could find.

[Daco Celtic]

Vikings didn't make much inroads into places like Spain because they were heavily rebuffed but I guess the further you are away from your homeland and bases it makes it more difficult to get reinforcements and also find a safe haven. They only had settlements in a few places and raided the coasts of Europe. Not sure how accurate this map is but it is the best I could find.

Cool map. They did get around. It shows the Norman conquest of Sicily under Roger I which is sort of quasi-Viking conquest I guess.