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How Croydon alderman saved ‘Golden Book’ from the Vikings
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Danish invaders on the rampage, a Wessex king winning a huge battle and the most opulent of all the surviving English Medieval manuscripts are all traced back to the role of a nobleman with land in Selsdon by … Continue reading
Posted in Church and religions, David Morgan, History
Tagged Alfred, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Battle of Aclea, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Codex Aureus, David Morgan, Gospel of St Matthew, King Aethelwulf, Mercia, Stockholm, Stockholm Museum, The Golden Book, Vikings, Wessex
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