Viking Bloodbath

QUESTIONWhere are the Picts? Where are the 'missing' Anglo-Saxon kingdoms? Where are the ancient monasteries which represented the start of a new civilisation in Britain after the fall of Rome?ANSWERThose peoples, kingdoms and institutions of learning were destroyed by the second wave of savage barbarians to sweep over the British Isles . . . the Vikings A race of destroyers still so popular that people name rugby league teams after them. Sorry historian Peter Sawyer and inhabitants of Scandinavia and Minnesota: the Vikings really were savage In this book the Vikings are sent back to Scandinavia before they ever get started on their rampage through the Isles.