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the Northern Conquest. Vikings in Britain and Ireland By Kathryn Hohmann How do we know what we know about the Vikings and the Viking age? Reconstructing the past is something like putting together a jigsaw, a jigsaw, where you do not know what the final picture is going to look like. Each different piece of information about that past, whether it be a broach or a book, needs to be slotted into the right place for the complete picture to emerge. Of course, when it comes to reconstructing a picture that lies some 1000 years in the past, the jigsaw is unavoidably and frustratingly bound to be missing several key pieces. However, the jigsaw, or more accurately, the jigsaws that tell us about life in the British Isles at the time of the Viking invasions and settlements are particularly intriguing and exciting. Here we have a time of great change and to judge from historical writings that have survived from the Viking Age, violent and sudden changes that