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The St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002

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St. Bryce's Day, 13th of November, A.

Ethelred's own career and where he's at by the year one thousand and two, at least as it's understood by contemporary scholarship. Er has some parallels with the story of saint bryce as it would have been understood by that same period. Something else is the issue of kind of succession and fallen standards. And acturally, you seeing a similar thing with etheredd. The big promm for him is that his father, edgar, is such a kind of key heroic figure r in the english kingdom. So there's a kind of wing up of the kingdom and the shawing up of that religious image.

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