| A.D. | ||
| 787 | First appearance of the Norse in Northumbria | |
| 795 | First plunderings of the Norse in Ireland | |
| 795 | Irish monks in Iceland | |
| 822 | Halfdan the Black, King of Norway (d. 860) | |
| 832 | The Norse appear in Kent | |
| 847 | First coming of the Danes to Ireland | |
| 853 | Olaf the White, King of the Norse in Dublin | |
| 867 | Ælla King of Northumbria | |
| 871 | Alfred the Great, King of England (d. 901) | |
| 872 | Harald Fairhair, King of Norway (d. 933) | |
| 875 | The Danes are subdued by Alfred, and Guthrum is baptized | |
| 878 | Harald Fairhair raids in the Orkneys and makes Ragnvald earl. During Harald’s reign Iceland is peopled from Norway | |
| 890 | Rolf Ganger, son of Ragnvald, Earl of More and Orkney, plunders in Normandy | |
| 900 | Torf-Einar in Orkney. Harald Fairhair’s second expedition to the West | |
| 901 | Edward the Elder, King of England (d. 925) | |
| 902 | The foreigners are expelled from Dublin | |
| 917 | Niall Glundubh (Black knee), King of Ireland, slain at battle of Kilmashog | |
| 924 | Edward the Elder is chosen as “Father and Lord” by the Scots, Northumbria, and Strathclyde | |
| 925 | Athelstan succeeds (d. 940) | |
| 933 | Eric Bloodaxe, King of Norway | |
| 934 | Hakon the Good returns to Norway and is crowned king | |
| 935 | Eric Bloodaxe leaves Norway and gets a kingdom in England | |
| 937 | Battle of Brunanburh | |
| 939 | Murtough of the Leather Cloaks makes a warlike circuit in Ireland | |
| 941 | Olaf Cuaran (of the Sandal) chosen King of Northumbria | |
| 942 | The Danes desert Dublin and flee across sea | |
| 944 | Olaf Cuaran expelled from Northumbria | |
| 949 | Olaf Cuaran returns; expelled a second time in 952 | |
| 960 | Battle of Stord, and death of King Hakon the Good | |
| 963 | Olaf Trygveson born in exile. Norway ruled by the sons of Eric Bloodaxe | |
| 979 | Ethelred the Unready, King of England | |
| 985 | Olaf Trygveson raids in the West and England. Sweyn Fork-beard becomes King of Denmark. | |
| 988 | He marries Gyda, a sister of Olaf Cuaran. He is baptised in the Scilly Isles | |
| 993 | Bambrough stormed | |
| 994 | Olaf Trygveson and Sweyn Fork-beard are driven back from London. Olaf promises never again to fight with England | |
| 995 | Earl Hakon slain; Olaf Trygveson becomes king of Norway | |
| 1000 | He dies at battle of Svold | |
| 1002 | Massacre of the Danes on St Brice’s Day | |
| 1004 | Sweyn Fork-beard burns Norwich | |
| 1009–10 | England ravaged by the Danes | |
| 1010 | Siege of London and battle of Hringmara Heath | |
| 1013 | Sweyn Fork-beard, King of England (d. 1014) | |
| 1014 | Battle of Clontarf in Dublin. Ethelred II. goes to Normandy | |
| 1015 | Reign of St Olaf in Norway (d. 1030) | |
| 1016 | Death of Ethelred II. Reign of Edmund Ironside. Battle of Assandun and division of England between Edmund and Canute. | |
| 1017 | Canute sole King of England | |
| 1028 | Canute subjugates Norway | |
| 1030 | Battle of Stiklestad and death of St Olaf | |
| 1030 | Sweyn, Canute’s son, King of Norway (d. 1035) | |
| 1035 | Magnus the Good, King of Norway (d. 1047) | |
| 1037 | Harald, Canute’s son, King of England | |
| 1040 | Hardacanute, King of England (d. 1042) | |
| 1043 | Edward the Confessor, King of England | |
| 1065 | Harold, Godwin’s son, consecrated king | |
| 1066 | Battle of Stamford Bridge | |
| 1066 | Battle of Hastings | |
FOOTNOTES
[1] Ethelwerd’s Chronicle, A.D. 786 (recté 787).
[2] Saxo’s Danish annals speak of Hame, the father of Ælla, as King of Northumbria (see [p. 18]), but he is unknown to the English Chronicles.
[3] This is the account of Saxo; the Norse accounts differ from him as to the district over which Ragnar ruled.
[4] The Northern chronicles here throw much light on the internal affairs of Northumbria, which are only briefly dealt with in the English chronicles. But the general outline of events fits well into the English account.
[5] i.e. the horns from which the ale was quaffed, made from the branching or curved antlers of reindeer or ox.
[6] i.e. “the Wanderer,” another name for Woden.
[7] i.e. his sons, the children of Aslaug, his second wife.
[8] i.e. the sword of Woden. The prophecy was shortly afterwards fulfilled, for Lodbrog’s sons returned to Northumbria, dethroned Ælla, and put him to a cruel death.