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77VIKING - 23: YE GODS and Other Big Fish in the Norse Sea of Myth
The gods of the northern world explained, their functions, where they lived and - in brief - what adventures they got up to.
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77The Notitia Dignitatum and the Saxon Shore Forts
The Saxon Shore in Britain functioned as a defense network to protect the wealthy trade towns of southern Britain from the barbarian pirates of the 3rd century. The Notitia Dignitatum is the only contemporary source that mentions the Saxon Shore, and the nine forts listed bear a rich history among them.
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74Who Do the British Think They Are?
Who are the British? DNA research reveals surprising facts about the origins of Britain's population. What does this tell us about the way we cling to mistaken assumptions about our own and other races' identity?
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77AGE OF HEROES - 9: ATTIRE EVOLUTION - Best- dressed Germanic warriors, and IN THE LONG HALLS, A Time for Tall Tales
The outfits men and women wore in times of war and peace differed little between the homelands of northern Europe or southern Scandinavia and where they settled in Britain. Leisure hours for the warrior class were long in winter. The telling of tales on long winter nights led to the Beowulf legend... Parallels can be drawn between Heorot and Yeavering in Bernicia (Northumberland)
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73AGE OF HEROES - 5: FYRDMEN, FYRDFAERELD, HUSCARLS - Call to Arms, Obligations to the King
Of the nature of service to the king or lord, the duty owed by the common man, warrior or thegn/gesith amongst the Germanic migrants to Britain after the Romans left in AD410. Each region of England differed in detail, but in the final analysis the demand on men's time and means to defend the kingdom was finite
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79AGE OF HEROES - 2: THE HIERARCHY - Elbowing out the Opposition amongst the Angles, Jutes and Saxons
After the Romans left in AD410 waves of Germanic invaders migrated to Britannia Major, some having knowledge of the land from fellows who had served the Romans as foederati. The kingdoms of theJutes, Angles and Saxons grew... Eventually they too would be overtaken in turn, one by another as the Angles and Saxons quarrelled amongst themselves... Until raids from Scandinavia turned into full-scale colonisation, and another stage in migrations
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77VIKING - 1: THREAT FROM THE SEA - Onset of the Viking Age on Mainland Britain
Northmen - pirates or colonisers? According to mediaeval sources they could be both, as witnessed by their campaigns in Normandy or England. Did they deserve their bad press? Well, they didn't exactly court favour from the Church in the early days of raiding Lindisfarne and Iona.
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67GODWIN'S CLAN - 5: AN EARL'S WEALTH - Harold's income Put to Use
The background to Harold's climb through political support and gifts to king, church and laity. This hub gives the lie to Norman claims of him being an enemy of the church and king
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72GODWIN'S CLAN - 6: WEALTH AND STANDING IN THE KINGDOM - Harold Godwinson as Earl of Wessex
The foundation of Harold's power as Earl of Wessex lay in the lands he held as earl, the lands he inherited from his father and those he acquired through the years. This is the background 'sketched' out that touches on his personality and explains the hostility of the Church in parts to what they termed 'land-grabbing' by the Earl of Wessex as he was then
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74Edward I and the War for Wales 1277
The Story of Edward I of England and his War for Wales.
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