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10 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I'm on a VIKING ROAD TRIP!
The legend @CatJarman is guiding me across England on the trail of the Great Heathen Army from East Anglia where they martyred King Edmund to the edge of Salisbury Plain where Alfred won his greatest victory.
Very excited to be back in one of the most remarkable and important Anglo-Saxon/Viking sites in the country. St Wystan's church in Repton was a royal & religious centre of the kingdom of Mercia. The 8thC crypt was the final resting place of several Mercian kings.
The monastery was looted & smashed by the Great Heathen Army in 873. Only the crypt survives. The Vikings buried their own outside the church including the famous 'Repton Viking' who was hacked to pieces but buried with a Thor's Hammer around his neck, a sword by his side....
....And and a boar's tusk where his (presumably) severed penis should be.
This show will be on History Hit TV as soon as possible but in the meantime here's a previous documentary we made just about the church and the Vikings in the Vicarage
access.historyhit.com/videos/the-vik…
You can enjoy a similar journey from the comfort of your own home by buying @CatJarman's book right here:
amazon.co.uk/River-Kings-Ca…

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Conventional Mt minor royal. So far so good.
Uninaginative.
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We need to talk about the Second World War.

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