Vikings and Garfunkel Horrible Histories (Ft. Jim Howick & Mathew Baynton)

We Vikings have an awful reputation with your nation
But when we’d finished plundering and pillages
Made nice villages
Any place name ending "–thorpe" or "–kirk" or "–by"
Was us, you see
Scunthorpe, Ormskirk, Wetherby, Scarborough fair
We named them, yeah

We split your isles diagonally
From south-east to north-west.
Our section called the Danelaw,
King Alfred ruled the rest.
Think we’re scary? No, don’t flee.
Conquered Saxons would find we
Settled and lived in harmony

Vike-Eng-land.
Though we began as raiders
So well-planned,
You accepted us as traders.

We introduced some new terms:
Husband, gasp, egg, awkward, nag, leg
More than fifty words to leave your lingo
To your liking, thank a Viking.
Your little town of Swansea City
Named for our King Sweyn.
Waterford and Dublin;
Us old Norse Vikings again.
As farmers we made doubly sure
To respect agriculture
With us, locals felt secure