Humanities and Social Sciences / 7–10 History / Year 8 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding / The Western and Islamic world / The Vikings (c.790 – c.1066) / ACDSEH048
Viking conquests and relationships with subject peoples, including the perspectives of monks, changes in the way of life of the English, and the Norman invasion
explaining the attacks on monasteries (for example, Lindisfarne (793 AD/CE) and Iona (795 AD/CE)), and reviewing the written accounts by monks that contributed to the Vikings' reputation for pillage and violence
explaining the survival of a heroic Iron Age society in Early Medieval Ireland, as described in the vernacular epics, and its transformation by the spread of Christianity; the influence of the Vikings; the Anglo-Norman conquest
investigating the remains of Viking settlements (for example, Dublin (Ireland) and Jorvik (York))