Shield walls, feuding kingdoms and Vikings: England was born in a bloodbath

Shield walls, feuding kingdoms and Vikings: England was born in a bloodbath

Between the end of Roman rule in Britain and the Norman conquest of England, many things occurred. Among them was the emergence of England itself — a turbulent birth amid a wall of shields (the characteristic military formation of those warlike times) — kingdoms at odds with each other, Vikings, and fascinating characters enveloped in the aura of legends from wild and bloody times, from which we hear the echo of the continuous clash of swords.

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