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It was mentioned as a history book, a collection of records about English history that was updated over a couple of hundred years. It also mentioned the Great Heathen Army and Ivar's association with it.
Something came out called the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was this sort of a history book. It was a collection of records about English history.
— Episode: Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless
Episode: Short Stuff: Ivar The Boneless
It was mentioned as a history book, a collection of records about English history that was updated over a couple of hundred years. It also mentioned the Great Heathen Army and Ivar's association with it.
Something came out called the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was this sort of a history book. It was a collection of records about English history.
And in that book, we do find a notation for the Great Heathen Army or the Great Army, which were these Scandinavian invaders and this big Viking army basically that hit the British Isles in 865 CE.
And apparently this Great Heathen Army, which again, they call it the Great Army too, but I'm not going to call it anything but the Great Heathen Army because it just sounds so much cooler.
This was a number of different armies from different Scandinavian lands that kind of all worked together.
It wasn't just one single solitary mass of the same people over 13 years who invaded England.