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The St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002

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Is This a Massacre?

Can we in any way say how big an event this was? I mean, you mention the bones in oxigen and and the lixeb hafe. We got any idea about whether this was a widespread blood letting event, or whether it would fairly localize the specific e. The fact that this gets its own big entry in the chronicle er, which is pretty laconic most of time, signifies that this is a serious event. And at least in the chronicles, they phrase it as something that applies to the kingdom at large. It's obviously subjective, and maybe you get into slightly dodgy territory by down talking massacres. But i think what's more important is that

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