Editing Lincoln, England (section)

===Lincylene===
[[File:Lincoln Castle, Lincoln - geograph.org.uk - 689665.jpg|thumb|East Gate, Lincoln Castle]]
Germanic tribes from the North Sea area settled Lincolnshire in the 5th to 6th centuries. The Latin ''Lindum Colonia'' shrank in [[Old English]] to Lindocolina, then to Lincylene.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – Parker MS: entry for 942 |url=http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/asc/a.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501203010/http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/asc/a.html |archive-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>

After the first [[Viking]] raids, the city again rose to some importance with overseas trading ties. In Viking times Lincoln had its own mint, by far the most important in Lincolnshire and by the end of the 10th century, comparable in output to that of [[York]].<ref>Finds suggest a 100-to-1 preponderance over the nominal mints of Caistor, Horncastle and Louth; a hoard recovered at Corringham, near Gainsborough, consists mainly of coins minted at Lincoln and York (David Michael Metcalf, ''An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coin Finds, c. 973–1086'', 1998:198–200).</ref> After establishment of the [[Danelaw]] in 886, Lincoln became one of the [[Five Burghs|Five East Midland Boroughs]]. Excavations at Flaxengate reveal that an area deserted since Roman times received timber-framed buildings fronting a new street system in about 900.<ref>Richard Hall, ''Viking Age Archaeology'' (series Shire Archaeology) 2010:23.</ref> Lincoln underwent an economic explosion with the settlement of the [[Danes (Germanic tribe)|Danes]]. Like York, the Upper City seems to have had purely administrative functions up to 850 or so, while the Lower City, down the hill towards the River Witham, may have been largely deserted. By 950, however, the Witham banks were developed, the Lower City resettled and the suburb of Wigford emerging as a trading centre. In 1068, two years after the [[Norman conquest of England]], [[William I of England|William I]] ordered Lincoln Castle to be built on the site of the old Roman settlement, for the same strategic reasons and controlling the same road, the [[Fosse Way]].<ref name="PS1">{{Cite PastScape |mnumber=326536 |mname=Lincoln castle |access-date=3 May 2013}}</ref>