QUESTION Where are the Picts? Where are the 'missing' Anglo-Saxon kingdoms? Where are the ancient monasteries which represented the start of a new civilisation in Britain after the fall of Rome? ANSWER Those peoples, kingdoms and institutions of learning were destroyed by the second wave of savage barbarians to sweep over the British Isles . . . the Vikings A race of destroyers still so popular that people name rugby league teams after them. Sorry historian Peter Sawyer and inhabitants of Scandinavia and Minnesota: the Vikings really were savage In this book the Vikings are sent back to Scandinavia before they ever get started on their rampage through the Isles.