An Insight into Beowulf

It’s no secret that since the 10th century, the Viking people had extensive trading relations with the peoples of the area known today as the Shetland and the Hebrides, the Heimskringla and the Inch valley. The main trade route from the Low countries via the British and the High Seas passed through these territories. Over time, the populations of the Shetlands gradually shrank while the population increased. Despite the rapid growth of the Shetlanders, there were still problems with the rule of the Magna Carta and other ruling bodies.

One of the primary concerns with the development of the period was over the jurisdiction of the Shetlander kings. It is likely that they felt that their control of the realms in the south central part of the country should be vested in the pagan leader Eothereof. This view resulted in the occupation of much of the areas then held by the Abbot of Hereford and the abbess of Wear. The shetler king would oversee the administration of the Shetling clans and the lands that the indigenous Shetli dwelt in. After the death of the King in 886 Arundel the younger son of the Jarl, Ulfred, took the throne and led the turbulent Shetish Wars, which eventually brought about the settling of the Northumbrians under the authority of https://litchapter.com/hamlet-quotes-madness the Archbishop of York. Eventually, the ShetLAND and the surrounding region came to be regarded by the Normans and the Mercians to be a separate entity after the conversion of the north to Christianity.

What are the Downs?

The Shetlevians adhered to a set of rules that guided the territorial extent of the land. The best place to settle at the moment of reckoning of the Sheteland lay in the parish of All Saints in the counties of Hereford and the Western Isles and the Isle of Man. The lands thus included the Balvern and the border with Cumnia and the Orkney, before the conquest by the Picts and the English in the 1160’s. The remaining territory, including the Forth and Leith regions, remained with the native kingdoms until the Norman invasion of the here, the marriage of the Duchy of Iona and the Wessex in the early 1250s and the subjugation of the local Shetlandish in the subsequent centuries.