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Apr 2013
23m 12s

85 – Ceawlin and the Sons of Ida

Jamie Jeffers
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So it’s 568. And things in what will someday become England are still chaotic. Remember what was going on up north in Bernicia? Where Ida, who was probably part of some sort of Anglian group, had taken control of Bamburgh, then he died, and then his sons started taking over for him? Well, that’s still […]

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