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9 Days: The Captive by Lizzie Ashworth

9 Days: The Captive by Lizzie Ashworth

Invasion! Ah, Britannia, that rugged foggy isle. By the time of the Viking invasions in the ninth century, the people of these lands had become a mix of the natives (before 200 BC) and incessant waves of conquerers (Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons). Absorbing newcomers and forging a new nation were a familiar process when Scandanavian adventurers set foot on her shores. Similar in so many ways to the earlier Northern European tribes that had made this island their home, the…

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