[muawiyah]

941 – 23 April 1014 ~ Brian Boru ~ that's TENTH CENTURY. By the TENTH CENTURY the Vikings knew about the British Isles. In the EIGHTH CENTURY they probably didn't beyond rumors from strangers they boiled in a pot to add to the village stew.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles say Viking raiders struck England in 793 and raided Lindisfarne. That's LATE EIGHTH CENTURY ~ again, in the early 8th century they didn't have Viking Boats ~ which is the point. Without those boats they couldn't get away from the Baltic and were pretty much stuck with control over only a small bit of even the Norwegian West Coast.

[bagman]

Of course the Vikings knew about the British Isles in the Eighth Century. When they weren’t plundering and pillaging, they were trading. As traders, they would have known about the British Isles.