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My name is Jamie, and this is episode 139, Mesa Field.

Blood makes the grass grow.

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Edwin, Osiric, Ayn Frith, Ayd Frith, Kabwhalin, Sigibert, Egrich.

Following Hatfield Chase, we have seen a bloodletting of the aristocracy of Anglo-Saxon

Britain of epic proportions, and we're only hearing about the very highest echelons.

But how many thanes, aethlings, and minor nobles would have lost their lives as well during

these power struggles?

If the life of Edwin is indicative of how these power struggles tended to go, it would

not have just been the kings and their war vans who died.

Their entire dynasty could find themselves in danger if a victor was feeling particularly

ruthless.

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