"The Norsemen Have Landed!" - The invading Norsemen get their first taste of British hospitality, a glass of Cornish-brewed mead, the traditional drink of their fifth-century forefathers, who were received in a somewhat different spirit. Fifteen hundred years ago this was a cry of terror, as the fierce Viking invaders landed on the Kentish coast and drove terror into the hearts of the natives, but to-day it was a cry of welcome to the 53 Dances, who were mobbed by the 30,000 holidaymakers on the sands of Broadstairs. July 28, 1949.