From Vikings to Scousers: Liverpool’s enduring bond with Norway

About 100 years after the first Viking invasion of Britain in the late 8th Century, Norse raiders landed in Scotland and made their way to Ireland and across the sea into the Liverpool city region.

Evidence is a bit scant, however.

“Archaeologists have relied heavily on pottery in an era when they didn’t use much pottery, but we know Vikings settled in the Liverpool city region in the first decade of the 10th Century,” said Liz Stewart, head of the Museum of Liverpool.

Place names form another strand of evidence, with historians confirming Toxteth, Croxteth, and Aigburth all have Viking roots.