Question: Early Scandinavian Dublin, the First Viking Age in Ireland began in which year, when Vikings began carrying out hit-and-run raids on Gaelic Irish coastal settlements?
Sentence (from "Vikings"): Vikings (Old English: "wicing"—"pirate", Danish and Bokmål: "vikinger" ; Swedish and Nynorsk: "vikingar" ; Icelandic: "víkingar" , from Old Norse "víkingar "), were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.
Relevant evidence: Yes