This is the beginning of a story about Vikings that could end up being more. My story will take part way through the Viking age and will follow Ylva Morana, a young Viking shield maiden. A shield maiden was a women warrior, they would fill in when a man was killed and fought as fiercely and as brutally as the men and were well respected. The story will follow the conquer of an Anglo-Saxon territory. The story, unfortunately, will not be a hundred percent accurate as all the characters will be fictional and not following a fixed point in history. There will also be changes in the language and slang. Takes place in the Viking Age, between 793CE to 1066CE. The Viking age is when the Vikings started to raid the west. It was at this time that they settled and raided England, Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Russia, Anatolia and Newfoundland. The time of the Vikings began with the raid of Lindisfarne Monastery in Northumbria, England. The Vikings were portrayed as brutal, violent and bloody. It wasn't until the 1890’s were the Viking’s image remade. Through study, their artistry, technological skills, sea skills and strategic skills were revealed. The Vikings were incredibly innovative, they created better boats, battle tactics and much more. The image that is created when you think of a Viking is a huge, dirty, brutish man with a beard and a horned helmet. In reality the Viking’s were actually very clean people and they never wore horned helmets (they are extremely impractical) The Viking’s kept trim beards and had some very creative hairstyles, like the reverse mullet, where the back of the head was shaved and the front left longer.