Season 6 · Episode 225
225 – Alfred in Somerset
The British History Podcast · Jamie Jeffers
December 1, 201630m 35s
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Show Notes
<p>It was January of 878. The dead of British winter – and Alfred was running. Through fields, past hamlets, keeping out of sight whenever he could. He ran. He headed for the Somerset Levels. This was a coastal plane during the 9th century – a dense network of impassable marshes. It wasn’t ideal, but at […]</p>
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