Wales is still discovering it’s involvement with the Vikings.
“This one-sided historical record of Vikings terrorising the land has now been transformed by archaeology. Viking contact was certainly hostile and brutal at times, but often opportunist. In some areas, they rapidly settled as peaceful farmers, and archaeology has provided evidence for them as colonisers, merchants, and skilled craftsmen.
The nature of Viking settlement in Wales remains one of the mysteries of early medieval archaeology, none more so than on Anglesey. This is emphasised when the Viking measurement of ‘a day’s sail’ is plotted from the Isle of Man, Dublin, Chester and the Wirral, for they all intersect in Anglesey waters.”
https://museum.wales/articles/2007-04-02/When-the-Vikings-invaded-North-Wales/
Hard to say if the Viking/Welsh made it as far as Kentucky but if anyone could have, they were it.
Yeah, there’s been a real revisionist streak of late regarding how kinder gentler they were.
They were so violent and ruthless that, when Alfred of Wessex fought back, he adopted guerrila tactics, because he’d had has ass handed to him during the early going. He hid on an old hillfort in the middle of a swamp, with a single dock-like wooden causeway for access, and did nothing for over a year but make iron weapons. Meanwhile the kingdom of Mercia ceased to exist.
Danes had poured into Britain as settlers, iow yeah, they weren’t all marauders, and the Anglo-Saxons struck back under the military principle, “hit ‘em where they ain’t”. The counterattacks took their slow toll, and the Danes agreed to a division and cessation of expansion into Anglo-Saxon areas.
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