mediumaevum:How to cope with Viking attack?Historians and archeologists increasingly recognize t
mediumaevum: How to cope with Viking attack? Historians and archeologists increasingly recognize the fact that many fortifications and fortified towns – known in Old English as burhs – existed in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia during the Viking age. They may have successfully checked Viking mobility at times but it was in Wessex where such defences were employed to their fullest effect. More -- source link
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