<P> In 1015, a Viking fleet entered the river Minho and sacked the episcopal city of Tui (Galicia); no new bishop was appointed until 1070 . </P> <P> In 844, many dozens of drakkars appeared in the "Mar da Palha" ("the Sea of Straw", mouth of the Tagus river). After a siege, the Vikings conquered Lisbon (at the time, the city was under Muslim rule and known as Lashbuna). They left after 13 days, following a resistance led by Alah Ibn Hazm and the city's inhabitants . Another raid was attempted in 966, without success . </P> <P> In about 986, the Norwegian Vikings Bjarni Herjólfsson, Leif Ericson and Þórfinnr Karlsefni from Greenland reached North America, over 500 years before Christopher Columbus, and they attempted to settle the land they called Vinland . They created a small settlement on the northern peninsula of present - day Newfoundland, near L'Anse aux Meadows . Conflict with indigenous peoples and lack of support from Greenland brought the Vinland colony to an end within a few years . The archaeological remains are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site . </P> <P> The long - term linguistic effect of the Viking settlements in England was threefold: over a thousand Old Norse words eventually became part of Standard English; numerous places in the East and North - east of England have Danish names, and many English personal names are of Scandinavian origin . Scandinavian words that entered the English language included landing, score, beck, fellow, take, busting and steersman . The vast majority of loan words did not appear in documents until the early 12th century; these included many modern words which used sk - sounds, such as skirt, sky, and skin; other words appearing in written sources at this time included again, awkward, birth, cake, dregs, fog, freckles, gasp, law, moss, neck, ransack, root, scowl, sister, seat, sly, smile, want, weak and window from Old Norse meaning "wind - eye". Some of the words that came into use are among the most common in English, such as to go, to come, to sit, to listen, to eat, both, same, get and give . The system of personal pronouns was affected, with they, them and their replacing the earlier forms . Old Norse influenced the verb to be; the replacement of sindon by are is almost certainly Scandinavian in origin, as is the third - person - singular ending - s in the present tense of verbs . </P>

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