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Sources and further reading:
Torgrim Titlestad's book "Outbreak of the Viking Age": https://sagabok.no/no/nettbutikk/p_229_outbreak_of_the_viking_age.html
His bookstore: www.sagabok.no (In Norwegian)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Frankish_Empire_481_to_814-en.svg
https://books.libertys.com/en/book/lib9538/the-vikings-in-france
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Småkungarike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
Aachen Cathedral w/video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral
https://www.medievalists.net/2010/05/ethnicity-identity-and-difference-the-origins-of-lay-people-in-the-carolingian-empire/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Meerssen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Italy#Carolingian_Dynasty_(781_–_887)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Verden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/136747143246/the-vikings-in-ireland-the-first-wave-795-873
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076713-125-year-mini-ice-age-linked-to-the-plague-and-fall-of-empires/
https://www.themaparchive.com/product/viking-raids-in-europe-c-780814/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/12/londons-viking-lineage/104235

https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/timeline-of-magna-carta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Liberties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus