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| rdfs:comment | - The Frankish Empire was first attacked by Viking raiders in 799 (six years after the earliest known Viking attack, at Lindisfarne, England), which eventually led Charlemagne to create a coastal defence system along the northern coast in 810. The defence system successfully repulsed a Viking attack at the mouth of the Seine in 820 (after Charlemagne's death), but failed to hold against renewed attacks of Danish Vikings in Frisia and Dorestad in 834. The attacks in 820 and 834 were unrelated and relatively minor, and more systematic raiding did not begin until the mid-830s, with the activity alternating between both sides of the English Channel. Viking raids were often part of struggles among Scandinavian nobility for power and status, and like other nations adjacent to the Franks, the Danes
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| Caption | - A Viking siege of Paris, 19th century portrayal
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| Result | - Viking occupation of Paris; departed for 7,000 livres of silver and gold
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| combatant | - Danish Vikings
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| abstract | - The Frankish Empire was first attacked by Viking raiders in 799 (six years after the earliest known Viking attack, at Lindisfarne, England), which eventually led Charlemagne to create a coastal defence system along the northern coast in 810. The defence system successfully repulsed a Viking attack at the mouth of the Seine in 820 (after Charlemagne's death), but failed to hold against renewed attacks of Danish Vikings in Frisia and Dorestad in 834. The attacks in 820 and 834 were unrelated and relatively minor, and more systematic raiding did not begin until the mid-830s, with the activity alternating between both sides of the English Channel. Viking raids were often part of struggles among Scandinavian nobility for power and status, and like other nations adjacent to the Franks, the Danes were well-informed about the political situation in Francia; in the 830s and early 840s they took advantage of the Frankish civil wars. Major raids took place in Antwerp and Noirmoutier in 836, in Rouen (on the Seine) in 841, and in Quentovic and Nantes in 842.
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