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Julian Richards
The Viking Great Army and the Winter of AD 872–3
Hay Festival 2014,
Recent discoveries have allowed archaeologists to locate the site, near Torksey in Lincolnshire, where the Viking Great Army wintered in AD 872–3. Richards describes what archaeological fieldwork can tell about the Great Army and their camp.