the Danes
noun/ðə ˈdeɪnz/
/ðə ˈdeɪnz/
[plural]- the name used in English history for those Vikings who attacked and settled in the eastern and northern parts of England in the 9th century, and whose kings ruled the whole of England from 1013 to 1042
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