Saint Lebwin, an Anglo-Saxon missionary, preached to the Saxons in Northern Germany.
Missionaries like Lebwin would chop down sacred trees, showing remarkable courage in the face of potential martyrdom.
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This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.
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