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Viking Britain
COVER STORY
THE LOST
BATTLES OF
VIKING
BRITAIN
From Anglo-Saxons slaughtered by Vikings
in East Anglia to the Norse king ambushed
and slain in the Pennines, Britain’s Viking
age saw bloodletting on a huge scale.
Thomas Williams introduces !ve forgotten
battles that helped shape a nation’s destiny
BRIDGEMAN /ALAMY
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