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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4650535, member: 110504&quot;]Absolutely Freaking Brilliant.&nbsp; ...From here, your eloquent points in the second paragraph are precisely what make the issues of York only more fun than the ones of the Danelaw, to the south.&nbsp; Even at the dynastic level, there was a lot going on between the often rival Norse kings of York and Dublin.&nbsp; Almost an echo of the drama involved in Harald Fairhair&#039;s unification of Norway.&nbsp; </p><p>At least by comparison (and even then, this is a frank exaggeration), the Danes to the south just kind of sit there and assimilate.&nbsp; When Svein Forkbeard and Cnut invade, a century later, most of what they find for a fifth column of support is in the North.</p><p>This had to take me back to two BM monographs, one old, but both good.&nbsp; Michael Dolley, <u>Viking Coins of the Danelaw and of Dublin</u> (1965), and Garth WIlliams, <u>The Vale of York Hoard</u> (2010).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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