Posted on 12/12/2015 5:43:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I love the name of that place, “Sutton Hooooo?”
the Vikings charged into the kingdom's capital, Repton, some 60 miles southwest along the Trent. There, they sacked a monastery, sent the king, Burghred, fleeing to Paris, and replaced him with a figurehead named Ceolwulf...The Viking Great Army: A tale of conflict and adaptation played out in northern England [2018]
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