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1 December 986-969 – Death of Harald Bluetooth, king of Denmark.

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8 December 877 – Coronation of Louis the Stammerer as king of the West Franks.

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05 October 2019 – A New Viking Hoard in Scotland updated with new information.

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25 September 2019 – Some thorough rewriting (not revision) of the first two parts of the Viking Tapestries series.

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08 Sept 2019 – New Who’s Who items: Edward the Confessor, Alfred Aetheling, Goda of England, and Gunhild of Denmark. Guess who their mother is?

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