At length the Dane – fit instrument of vengeance – brought 300 years of piratical invasion to complete the misery of the brave but disunited people. Rapine and slaughter everywhere marked the path of the Danes, and these Pagan warriors spared none of the monasteries in which wealth was to be had by sacrilege.
Phillips/Mountains
Across the North Sea they came, in their great ships propelled by many oars, the rowers protected on either side by lines of brightly coloured shields, whilst overhead fluttered the huge sail, marked with an eagle, raven or dragon.
Pearson/Yorkshire
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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