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The earliest date given for a Viking raid is 787 when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to Portland, in Dorset. There, they were mistaken for merchants by a royal official, and they murdered him when he tried to get them to accompany him to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods. The next recorded attack, dated June 8, 793, was on the monastery at Lindisfarne—the "Holy Island"—on the east coast of England. For the next 200 years, European history is filled with tales of Vikings and their plundering. Vikings exerted influence throughout the coastal areas of Ireland and Scotland, and conquered and colonized large parts of England (see Danelaw). Wales also saw some Viking settlements on its coast; the modern day city of Swansea takes its name from Sweyne Forkbeard who was shipwrecked at modern day Swansea Bay; neighbouring Gower Peninsula has many place names of Norse origin (such as Worms Head. Worm is the Norse word for dragon, as the Vikings believed that the serpent shaped island was a sleeping dragon). Twenty miles west of Cardiff on the Vale of Glamorgan coast is the semi-flooded island of Tusker Rock, which takes its name from Tuska the Viking whose people semi-colonised the fertile lands of the Vale of Glamorgan. The Britons of Cornwall allied with the Vikings in an unavailing attempt to expel the Saxons from Cornwall in 838.[1] Vikings travelled up the rivers of France and Spain, and gained control of areas in Russia and along the Baltic coast. Stories tell of raids in the Mediterranean and as far east as the Caspian Sea. Significantly, the Celtic nations of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall, during their battles against the Anglo-Saxons, decided to ally with the Vikings against the Saxons. Possibly as a result, the modern-day Celtic nations of Britain, in particular the cities of Cardiff and Swansea in Wales, Falmouth in Cornwall and in Ireland the cities of Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Waterford, have a certain pride in what is perceived as "Viking ancestry". Adam of Bremen records in his book Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, (volume four): Aurum ibi plurimum, quod raptu congeritur piratico. Ipsi enim piratae, 'quos illi Wichingos as appellant, nostri Ascomannos regi Danico tributum solvunt. "There is much gold here (in Zealand), accumulated by piracy. These pirates, which are called wichingi by their own people, and Ascomanni by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king." |
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Blitzer
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block, Frenzy, Jump Up Mighty Blow, Sure Hands |
14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 30/ | 130k
(145)k |
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| 2 |
Lineman
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block Sure Hands |
n | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9/ | 70k
(63)k |
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| 3 |
Lineman
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block Tackle |
m | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12/ | 70k
(0)k |
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| 4 |
Lineman
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block Tackle, Sure Hands |
14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 16/ | 90k
(105)k |
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| 5 |
Thrower
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block, Pass |
8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/ | 70k
(65)k |
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| 6 |
Catcher
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block, Catch |
9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5/ | 70k
(75)k |
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| 7 |
Lineman
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block Tackle, Sure Hands |
14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17/ | 90k
(105)k |
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| 8 |
Lineman
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block Dodge |
14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12/ | 80k
(90)k |
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| 9 |
Blitzer
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block, Frenzy, Jump Up |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/ | 90k
(95)k |
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| 10 |
Blitzer
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block, Frenzy, Jump Up |
14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5/ | 90k
(95)k |
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| 11 |
Lineman
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6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Block |
14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5/ | 50k
(50)k |
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| 15 |
Ogre
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5 | 5 | 2 | 9 | Big Guy, Bone Head, Mighty Blow, Thick Skull, Throw Team Mate Guard |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13/ | 140k
(123)k |
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| Games Played: | 14 (3/1/10) | | | TD Diff: | -16 (8 - 24) | | | Cas Diff: | -5 (14/10/7 - 19/11/6) |
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