Traditional Welsh poetry also records the Scandinavian presence in Wales For example, the Arymes Prydein Vawr or "Omen of Great Britain" composed sometime between 8 AD and preserved in the 13th century manuscript known as The Book of Taliesin states: Achymot kymry agwyr dulyn This alliance of Northman with Welshman against the English was to recur again many times in the coming years. The inhabitants of Cornwall, known as the West Welsh, were in contact with the Viking raiders as early as 835 AD, when they contracted with the Danes to fight against the Anglo-Saxon King Ecgberht who had subjugated the Cornish in 823. The first certain notice of a Viking raid upon Wales occurs in all the Welsh Chronicles ( Annales Cambriae, Brut y Tywysogion and Brut y Saeson) in the annals for the year 850 AD (note 1), when a certain Cyngen died on the swords of "the Heathen." Some scholars believe that Viking incursions into Wales began even earlier, suggesting that the Vikings who raided the Church on Recru or Lombay Island in 795 AD had sailed there from Wales.
The Welsh Sources and Earliest Viking Contacts
Scandinavian Influence On Welsh Art, Music and Literature. A Chronology of Viking Raids into Wales. Wales: a Target for the Norse-Irish Raiders. The Welsh Sources and Earliest Viking Contacts. More information on the Vikings in Wales is available below: Eventually Wales became a place of pilgrimage and religious instruction in later years for the Christianized descendants of the Norse raiders. Kings like Rhodri ap Merfyn, known as Rhodri Mawr (the Great, 844 to 878 AD) and Hywel Dda (the Good, 900 to 950 AD) were able to rally large numbers of Welshmen to the defense of their lands with a stubborn resistance, preventing the formation of large Norse kingdoms such as existed elsewhere in the British Isles. During the period of the Viking attacks, Wales was divided into several independent kingdoms which were constantly engaged in internal struggles and internecine warfare, which rendered the Welsh unable to present a united front to ward off the new threat from overseas with complete success. Wales was repeatedly raided, especially by the Norse from the Hiberno-Norse kingdoms of Dublin and Limerick. Norse Raids and Settlement in Wales Dear Viking Answer Lady: Did the Vikings invade Wales to any significant degree? (signed) Concerned Cymro Gentle Reader:Īlthough Wales did not experience significant Viking settlement such as occurred in Ireland and in England, still Wales felt the blows of the Northerners.
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