
The rebel who defied William the Conqueror
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Isle of Eli - The Perfect Base for All These Rebels
On the history extora podcas, it's almost a way to rationalize the fact that we were conquered by the french again. It seems to combine lots of these elements of famous stories that we know so well. Er and see, he there they base themselves on the isle of eli er. The anglo saxon chronicle talks about them trying to join up with a danish army that arrives. And william eventually falls back on this old anglo saxton tactic of paying the vikings off to leave england. So we've now effectively got vikings buying off viking invasions of england.
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