Waterford 914 Author:Maria Walsh It is 914 and the Irish settlement of Portlairge is about to meet the largest force of Viking invaders it has ever encountered. The small settlement on the banks of the river Suir was totally unprepared for them. Renamed Vadrefjord by the invading Vikings the place would become the modern City of Waterford, Ireland's oldest city settlement. The ... more »Vikings created a trading settlement which would go on to become one of Ireland's greatest port cities. Just how did these invaders manage to inveigle themselves into the local community? Why were the local people so accepting of them? The imaginative way this was achieved is the subject of this historical novel which captures the difficulties the locals and Vikings encountered in their quest for survival and eventual peaceful settlement.« less