1100 years ago marked the start of a Viking invasion of the Mersey region, which reached out into Chester, West Lancashire and beyond. The Vikings left behind place-names like Kirkby, Kirby, Meols and Croxteth, which can also be found in Iceland, another region they were invading.
This book is about these people in peace and war, their customs, traditions, pastimes, their paganism and their Christianity, their governments and their financial centre at Chester. It also includes a section on how modern genetic research is being used to discover the descendants of these Invaders in the modern day population.
Preface
Chapter 1 - Blood of Viking Mersey
Chapter 2 - Mersey Northernism
Chapter 3 - 902AD
Chapter 4 - Ingimund's Wirral
Chapter 5 - Wirral's Viking Seaport: Meols and the River Dee
Chapter 6 - Viking Chester
Chapter 7 - Viking West Lancashire
Chapter 8 - The Scandinavians in West Lancashire (by F.T. Wainwright
Chapter 9 - The Hammer and the Cross: Mersey Paganism and Christianity
Chapter 10 - The Things of Wirral and West Lancashire
Chapter 11 - 937AD. The Battle of Brunanburh
Chapter 12 - Viking people after Brunanburh
Chapter 13 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Norse dialect in 14th-Century Cheshire
Chapter 14 - Sons and Dottirs: The Search for Viking genes
Chapter 15 - 2002AD: An Anniversary not forgotten!
Further Reading