The Vikings, pt. 2 -- Into Distant Realms
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
Apocalypse in the Mediterranean
Only 20 of the 62 ships ultimately made it back to their base after a three-year expedition deep into the mediterranean. Many people including churchmen suspect that these Norse attackers were sort of harbingers of the apocalypse and that they were living in the end times. The height of devastation was in the eight hundred sixties when one monk named airmentarius who returned to the monastery at noir huntier wrote quote the number of ships grows the endless stream of vikings never ceases to increase everywhere the christians are victims of massacres burnings plunderings.
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