Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal
The History of English Podcast
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Wel Us Overcomen, Erus Arwate Ar Geton.
The word camp was re borrowed from latin, and this time it came back in with its original meaning as an open space. And that's the sense which we still have to day. So returning to the battle of brunenberg, we've seen that the five northern kings lay dead on the camp stead,. The poet then states that seven earls of the viking king and numerous other men had also been slain in battle. He tells us that it was the greatest victory since the anglo saxons had arrived in britain and conquered the native welsh.
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