They also had superior swords to everyone else: the ulfberht.
Mind you, their swords and muscles didn't help them when there was once a mass slaughter of Danes on St. Brice's Day in England. Maybe the English caught them off-guard that day.
The St. Brice's Day massacre was the killing of Danes in the Kingdom of England on 13th November 1002, ordered by King Ćthelred the Unready.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Br...s_Day_massacre
England was once divided into two kingdoms with the Danelaw ruling over one half of our country in the north and east, and the Saxon King Alfred the Great ruing over and protecting the south and west and Wales against the Danelaw.
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ers-Of-England
Well, one day the native Anglo Saxon people revolted against the Danelaw and wanted their land and resources back from the Danish settlers in our land.... and the Danish King Cnut's sister was killed in the massacre of Danes in England on St. Brice's Day... and word got back to King Cnut in Denmark, which led to him coming over to England in a rage and taking over the throne of England, and he made himself the new King - not just over one half of our country, but over the whole of England.
Also, a mass grave of beheaded Vikings (all young men) was found in Weymouth in my original home county of Dorset along the coast of south-west England. The local people were defending themselves and their land from being raided, and they defended themselves from being slaughtered by Vikings.
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