
420 – The Wake and the Earl
The British History Podcast
Introduction
Harroward was returning to Ealy with his men. They were taking literal boatloads of treasure with them. The downside though was that they were a little light on matches, as the Danes had just lit Peterborough on fire. Hugh tells us that Harroward's goal was actually to protect the abbey from the Normans.
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