Being and equal part

[waralan]

Valda, you're probably right.  I don't know which side of the Alantic you are on, but in the States, there are at least one on computor, online doccumentry , but I emailed it to a person in England. but it was not acessable to her.

[PrueM]

There's plenty of evidence that Eric the Red did not discover Iceland - Valda's right, it is Greenland you're thinking of 

The results of recent carbon dating work, published in the journal Skírnir, suggests that the country may have been settled as early as the second half of the 7th century.[14]

The first known permanent Norse settler was Ingólfur Arnarson, who built his homestead in Reykjavík in the year 874. Ingólfur was followed by many other emigrant settlers, largely Norsemen and their Irish slaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland

As Erik the Red was not born until 950 or so, he can't have discovered Iceland 

Cheers
Prue

[waralan]

Prue, I stand corrected.

[waralan]

Prue, and others I see there is a part of the British Isles that were once under what was known as Dane Law.

[PrueM]

Yes, there is plenty of information about Danelaw on the web, including:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw

Basically it was the parts of England (mainly in the north and east) that were inhabited and ruled by Nordic settlers and their descendants, as distinct from the earlier Anglo-Saxon people.

[waralan]

PrueM, I would suspect that covers my grandfather's home county, Cambridgeshire.

[PrueM]

I believe it did cover at least part of the area now (or previously) known as Cambridgeshire, but I'm not really an expert in the Danelaw 

[waralan]

Thanks Prue M.

[Jean McGurn]

Tonight on Channel 4 at 8 p.m. there is a Time Team Special: The Real Vikings.

Time Team are following digs around the country that have uncovered a lot of archeaology and provides an insight to the Viking way of life. (Or so it says in my paper)

Jean