By Mark Gorton
28th Aug 2021 | Local Features
Despite being a biochemist, Wallasey born Professor Steve Harding of Nottingham and Oslo Universities has become an authority on Wirral's Viking heritage, having stumbled upon the subject while a student. Here's his brief history of the time when Viking migration gave us place names and words we see and hear all the time but take for granted.
1100 years ago a group of Viking settlers of primarily Norwegian descent, otherwise known as Norsemen – and joined by some Danes - arrived somewhere between places they would later call Vestri-Kirkjubýr (West Kirby) and Melr (Meols) on the shores of north Wirral.
