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Oct 2013
25m 33s

101 – I Ran (So Far Away): The Life and ...

Jamie Jeffers
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Today we’re going to talk quite a bit about Northumbria. And actually, Northumbria is going to start to get really important in our story going forward. Now much of what we know of Northumbria during this period is due to the efforts of Bede, and other Northumbrians who maintained his tradition of keeping annals. And […]

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