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hidden histories of the Viking Age. This is approximately 750 AD to 1100 AD,

the German Sea, what we now call the North Sea, the Angles and Saxons had settled

into what we now know as Great Britain, the British Isles. Here come the Norsemen.

Raiders first, and then Eleanor tells the story of the great heathen army

and Alfred the Great and making a deal

beginning of the Vikings

settling down.

Embers of the Hands is Viking talk

for gold. But now, farming.

Here's Eleanor to explain the transformation of the raiders,

really good raiders, into really good farmers.

What's sometimes called the Great Heathen Army

that, like Mitchell, Hara, in Old English,

arrives in around 865. And it's been suggested that actually,

rather than thinking of it as one big invading force, it's more useful to think of it as smaller

mobile war bands with different leaders, which makes it much more possible for them to essentially, you know, nipping

through the waterways, they can overwinter, and then they can keep going inland and they have

then the element of surprise. They can also sort of split up. Some can head north, some can head

south, and that makes it much more difficult to predict what's going to happen. And that seems to

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