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​​Children of the Norman Conquest

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Anglo Saxon History: The Year Nine Seven Five

There was a deliberate effort to try and look back and find points of of virtue, or things that should be recognizedb and quite up. A year that comes up quite a lot in your story is the year nine seven five, during the reign of a previous king, king edgar. In some ways, the end of his reign was seen as kind of like the beginning of the end for anglo saxon england. When he died, there was a succession crisis. There was a kind of a lot of trouble and an upheaval in england,. including the sight of a comet, marking the sign that things were going to go very badly wrong. As we see on the bay of

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