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The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England?

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dr Ben Raffield explains how in the ninth and tenth centuries, Scandinavian laws and customs prevailed across a swathe of what’s now northern and eastern England   In the ninth and tenth centuries, Scandinavian laws and customs prevailed across a swathe of what’s now northern and eastern England called the Danelaw. Dr Ben Raffield considers what the Danelaw actually was, and how Scandinavian settlers interacted with the early English kingdoms.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Music Both these offers end on the 15th of May 2021. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

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I'm Ellie Gawthorne. After the invasion of the Viking Great Army, by the latter part of the 9th century, historians speak about there being a separate part

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of what's now eastern and northern England, called the Dane Law, where Scandinavian laws and

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customs prevailed. But what actually was the Dane Law and how should we understand it? Our content

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