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This year came dreadful forewarnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully.

These were immense sheets of light, rushing through the air and whirlwinds and fiery dragons flying across

the firmament.

These tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine. Not long after, on the sixth day before the eyes of

January in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the Church of God in Holy Island,

Ereapine and Slaughter.

Welcome to the history of England, episode 5 the noble wolf.

Last time then we had an introduction to the Vikings wherein we resolutely refused to

address the sensitive side of their nature.

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