28. The Vikings Great Heathen Army, Repton, Derbyshire
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week Neil winters with the Great Heathen Army, the mighty Viking force that was poised, ready to sweep across the British Isles.
After the Vikings defeated the powerful Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia they chose to over-winter their army in its capital, Repton in Derbyshire.
It was here they rested and recuperated, plotting and planning their next military moves. It was also where they buried their dead. The grave of a formidable Viking, known as the Repton Warrior, who died of terrible injuries was found here, buried with his battle sword. The Vikings, who had died in battle were heading for Valhalla, but come the good weather their comrades were intent on pressing on and conquering the whole of the British Isles.
Also discovered at Repton was a mass Viking grave of great significance. At its centre was, what's thought to be, the grave of one of the Great Heathen Army's leaders - the legendary warrior, Ivar the Boneless.
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| 0:00.0 | The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize. |
| 0:06.7 | But who will it be? |
| 0:07.7 | Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that. |
| 0:10.6 | Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket. |
| 0:13.1 | Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms |
| 0:17.6 | rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. The golden ticket that you needed to get into Valhalla, where you would feast and fight all day with the gods. |
| 0:32.0 | You needed to die a violent death in battle. |
| 0:38.4 | In this podcast we're heading to the capital of the fallen kingdom of Mercia. |
| 0:45.6 | Wintering with the Mikkelhethon Here, |
| 0:48.6 | the great heathen army of Danish, Swedish, |
| 0:51.6 | and Norwegian Vikings. |
| 0:54.0 | Plotting, planning, and burying their dead. |
| 1:00.0 | Mighty warriors slain with terrible injuries buried with their weapons and heading for Valhalla. |
| 1:09.0 | A powerful army resting itself, |
| 1:12.0 | readying itself for its next move |
| 1:15.0 | to sweep across the British Isles. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me, and the whole world. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm Neil Oliver, and this is my love letter to the Brock of Burse, a tiny island well and truly trampled beneath Viking feet. Where are we now? |
| 1:55.0 | Those folk on the Brochapurset, those Christian picks, they had it bad, they had it rough, but there was much worse coming for people elsewhere in the rest of the British Isles. |
| 2:09.0 | This week we're in a place that gives us a vivid, a bloody Viking army, halfway through a determined |
| 2:17.0 | campaign to conquer the entirety of the archipelago of the British Isles. |
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