Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Viking Age podcast.

My name is Lee, and this is episode 28, Myth and Midgard.

This is the first part of our brand new series on Viking Worlds.

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All right, enough plugs for now. Let's get right on to the history. So when we last left off,

which was way back in the beginning of February at this point,

we had just finished our discussions on the Carolingian Empire,

and specifically we talked at length about the 30-year conflict known as the Saxon Wars.

This series of religiously motivated campaigns were finally brought to a close

around the year 800, as the Frankish King Charlemagne and his forces at long last managed to convert

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