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Ethelred and the Rain
Ethelred is the son of king edgar, who is sor of the big, great king of the tenth century. His brother is king before him, but is murdered in a sort of factional dispute which brings ethelred to power as a child. There's a period where he's a child king, and then he cand have comes into his own from the nine eighties. But then it seems the sort of, the rain takes on a a new character. From the nine nineties, were er, partly, i suppose, as the result of these viking attacks starting again. Again. People think of causation in the real and physical political world as related t kind of
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