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  Howard, in fact I did write that those Vikings who were not caught plundering and killing were NOT put to death on account of their being pagan! And also that those who settled in England with their families eventually converted - they or their descendants - and I was implying therewith that they got on with the local Anglo-Saxon population.
  Those who settled down recognised freedon of religion, as this was the only way that the English would accept them, as the Vikings were pagan and the English were Christians.
  It may be that in the battles that later followed, when Wessex and Mercia and English Northumbria regained control of all England, some pagan Danes were mobbed by the local Anglo-Saxons, but on the whole they were not mobbed or molested and were integrated into English society!

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