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My name is Jamie and this is episode 204.

It's notting him.

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Charles the Bald as a f*** stick.

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At the end of the last episode, the gates of Yorovic had opened and the great heathen

army marched forth.

They were headed south to the kingdom of Mercia.

Mercia makes sense for the Northmen.

The leaders of the great army had already bolstered their northern border through their

puppet king Egbert.

East Anglia had been brought to heel and economically devastated, so they were unlikely to

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