198 – The Great Heathen Army Begins

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On 864 or 865, a great Scandinavian fleet of Dragon ships, or Drakkars, beached themselves at Thanet in Kent. For the people of the south, this would have been terrifying It had been scarcely more than a decade since the last fleet of Drakkars landed in Thanet, and the army exploded forth from those ships […] The post 198 – The Great Heathen Army Begins first appeared on The British History Podcast.

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