Researchers find Britain’s 11th-century ‘Conquest Man’ was Scandinavian – but did he land with the Norman army?

The Guardian 30 Aug United Kingdom

It’s ‘plausible’, though more likely the Humberside resident was one of many immigrants to Viking-controlled Danelaw One of the most consequential showdowns in the history of the British Isles, the Battle of Hastings is seen as the foundational event of the Anglo-Saxons’ conquest by their Norman enemy across the Channel. But researchers who have put flesh on the bones of one man who lived through

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