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  2. Vikings and Anglo Saxons-Week

Vikings and Anglo Saxons-Week

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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William the Conqueror (1027–87), king of England from 1066 when he beat Harold II at the battle of Hastings. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)
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1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne

Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons

A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
Viking

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)
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Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

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A virtuous Viking: the medieval legend of Havelok the Dane

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners

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The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period

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The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain

A view of Þingvellir National Park in western Iceland. It was here, in AD 930, that Viking settlers established the first pan-Icelandic assembly – possibly the oldest parliamentary body in the world. (© Dreamstime)
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Vikings: A land without kings

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Second World War

Viking treasures and Hitler’s ‘perfect woman’

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