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The Scandinavian History Podcast

006 The Great Heathen Army

34 min • 3 april 2020

Despite the corona quarantine, I’ve managed to record a new episode!

In the year 865, a large force of Vikings invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Everyone was robbed, and those who didn’t submit to Scandinavian rule were also killed. King Edmund of East Anglia was turned into a pincushion by Ivar the Boneless. Only Wessex continued to defy the onslaught. Its teenage king Alfred fought the Viking forces that are known to history as the Great Heathen Army.

 

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