• General Notes

  [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 21, Ed. 1, Tree #1186, Date of Import: Apr 26, 1999]
  In 911, Rollo the Ganger, a Viking secured from Charles the Simple the
  territory near the mouth of the Seine River, which hencforth was known as
  Normandy.  The Vikings first appeared in England and on the Continent as
  merchants and pirates, then as conquerors and colonist.  Vikings, chiefly
  Danes, began raiding England in 787; then in 866 a Danish army landed in
  eastern England and established a permanent settlement.  The Vikings
  followed the same pattern on the Continent.  They attacked cities along
  the wester coast of Europe, penetrated into the Mediterranean Sea, and
  invaded the valley of the Rhone.  They sailed over the Russian river
  system to reach the Black sea and raided Constantinople.  This initial
  perior of piratical forays led to the establishment of permanent
  settlements.  This new wave of invasions was not a disruptive as the
  great movements of peoples in the fourth and fifth centuries, but they
  were for  Western Europe a new dark age.  Amid the violence, however, the
  work of Christianizing the pagan peoples continued and helped to abate
  the invasions

Details of Rollo The's family with UNKNOWN Popa