Tag: Christmas

A Case of Clerical Diplomacy – King Æthelstan and the Church in York

By ThePostgradChronicles on April 30, 2018 • ( 9 Comments )

A man of no mean ambition, by 927 King Æthelstan found himself walking on untrodden ground, the ruler of much of what we would consider modern England. His grandfather, Alfred, had beaten […]

Berserks, Revenants, and Ghost Seals – Surviving a Saga Christmas

By ThePostgradChronicles on December 25, 2017 • ( 5 Comments )

Christmas in the Icelandic sagas is not always pleasant. Perhaps a shipload of berserks will arrive at your isolated farmstead intent on rape and slaughter. Or maybe the undead have become active, […]

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European Medieval History from the Viking Age to the Hundred Years' War

Tag: Christmas

A Case of Clerical Diplomacy – King Æthelstan and the Church in York

Berserks, Revenants, and Ghost Seals – Surviving a Saga Christmas

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