re: #136 Arkansawyer

Have you seen The Last Kingdom on netflix? It a fictional account of the invasion of Britain by the Danes.

No, but I’ll check it out.

Dr Alice Roberts has a show on the BBC, Digging for Britain. One episode featured some fellow in the south who uncovered a large cache of silver coins dating back to Alfred the Great’s time. A good-sized portion of the coins were Viking, suggesting that Alfred and the Danish king had a working relationship, and not an adversarial one as most historians had believed.

Unfortunately, the video is no longer available at the Beeb.