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385 – The Audacity of Boats

The British History Podcast

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Tostig's Mental Health

Tostig was linked to multiple murders and maybe a little revenge cannibalism. After six months of this, the court of flanders must have been gettingten. If allowing tostig to recruit some men and grab a few ships was what he needed to take his dour nonsense elsewhere, well that was a price baldwin would happily pay. But we don't have a single record for tostig's movements. Instead, we have a variety of records that indicate various places he's claimed to have gone in trying to deal with this mess. Some historians have ignored some of these records based on the belief that tostig simply couldn't have gone to all the places that are listed

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