Hello everyone and welcome back to the Viking Age podcast. My name is Lee and this is episode 22,

The Heathens still at Dublin, of Viking Longforts. This, as always, is a community-supported podcast,

and that means that we need your help in order to keep this project going.

However, I'm going to give a little update on this at the end of the episode, and so for now,

let's just head on to the history.

So last time, we explored the life of the mostly legendary Viking chieftain named Turgesh.

And along the way, we also got a chance to look at what exactly Viking-R in Ireland were up to in the late 830s and early 840s.

The biggest development in these years came in 841 when a group of viking R overwintered in

Ireland for the first time, spending the cold months sheltered in a camp which had been

established along the shore or perhaps on the islands of Loch Ney. Apparently, the cold didn't scare them off, and this innovative

idea quickly spread. By the winter of 841, 842, two additional Viking camps had been established,

one at Lindukel in Laoth, and the other at Dublin.

In the Irish Annals, these bases are called Longfords,

an Irish term meaning naval base or naval camp.

However, most historians that I've read choose to leave this word untranslated, and so I'm going

to do the same on this podcast.

Now, as you might remember, we actually briefly touched on this topic last time.

But today, we are going to explore the establishment of these Longforts in much greater detail. We are going to talk about

where they were situated, how they may have been constructed, and just what purpose they served.

Then we'll hop back into the narrative and see firsthand the impact that these permanent bases

had on the Irish Viking Age. I hope that you

were as excited about this as I am. So, let's do it. To kick us off, let's take a closer look

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