Summary of Cat Jarman's River Kings

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 The traditional narrative is that the Viking Age began when a band of Vikings attacked the wealthy monastery at Lindisfarne in Northumbria on 8 June 793. The attack was described in a letter to Ethelred, king of Northumbria, by Alcuin of York, a scholar living in what is now Germany. #2 The Viking camp at Repton was found to be the most sacred burial place of the Mercian royal family. The graves with Scandinavian artifacts