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    Summary of Cat Jarman's River Kings
    Summary of Cat Jarman's River Kings
    Summary of Cat Jarman's River Kings
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    #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 were placed in prominent positions around the church, perhaps with the aim of legitimizing the rule of those leaders who had conquered all that land.

    #3 The excavated skeleton of G511, known as the Repton warrior, was discovered in Oxford in 2012. He had been buried with a sword of a Scandinavian type and a Thor’s hammer pendant around his neck. It was clear from his artifacts that he was a Viking.

    #4 Isotope analysis is a method used to trace a person’s geographical origins and background. It is done by identifying the origins of grave goods if present, but this method has some flaws. For example, burying the dead with artifacts was not always common practice, and even when it was, the objects did not always belong to the deceased.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateApr 19, 2022
    ISBN9781669387398
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      #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 were placed in prominent positions around the church, perhaps with the aim of legitimizing the rule of those leaders who had conquered all that land.

      #3

      The excavated skeleton of G511, known as the Repton warrior, was discovered in Oxford in 2012. He had been buried with a sword of a Scandinavian type and a Thor’s hammer pendant around his neck. It was clear from his artifacts that he was a Viking.

      #4

      Isotope analysis is a method used to trace a person’s geographical origins and background. It is done by identifying the origins of grave goods if present, but this method has some flaws. For example, burying the dead with artifacts was not always common practice, and even when it was, the objects did not always belong to the deceased.

      #5

      The enamel in your teeth is the only part of your body that remains unaltered throughout your life. It is constantly taking up nutrients from your diet, and as a result, it absorbs traces of substances that can tell us what you ate and where you ate it.

      #6

      The strontium results showed that G511 could not have grown up in or near Repton. The values from his teeth were consistent with an origin in southern Scandinavia, most likely Denmark. The isotope results showed that the younger man next to G511 had grown up in a location that was almost identical to that of the warrior, and had sustained violent injuries.

      #7

      The DNA analysis of the Repton warriors showed that they were most likely father and son, and that G511’s eye color was most likely blue. The genetic

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