The term Viking covers all the pagan peoples of Scandinavia who Old Norse, and originated in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Gotland. The Vikings were farmers, fishers, hunters and skilled craft workers. Many Vikings traded with Europe, Russia and Asia, furs, walrus ivory, amber and slaves for silver, gold and luxury goods including wine, fine textiles, pottery and glassware. Restricted by a of natural resources and land some Vikings overseas to places such Britain, Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in search of better land to farm.
During the ninth century, Danish Vikings in eastern England. From AD 870 they moved west and invaded Wessex in AD 878. King Alfred of Wessex them in battle and established a frontier dividing England into two parts. The north and east came under Danish control (Danelaw) while Alfred governed West Mercia, Kent and Wessex.