The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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In the 9th century, all around Western Europe, monks and nuns would routinely wake up early in the morning to recite or sing complex daily liturgies. One particular Antiphany, or Two-Voice Song, contained the following prayer: Summa pià gratia nos tres con servando copora et custodita,. Or in English, most supreme and holy grace protect our bodies and our loved ones, and deliver us, O Lord, from the savage race of the Northmen. On the same time in the 830s, a monk in Ireland wrote a poem in the margins of his prayer book, in which he praised stormy knights, because these were the only times when
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