By 870, the Vikings had conquered two of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Northumbria & East Anglia. At the end of 870 they launched an attempt to conquer Wessex & marched from East Anglia to Reading, arriving around the 28th December. The town was between the Thames & Kennet rivers & they set about building a ditch & rampart on the southern side between the two rivers. Three days after their arrival they sent out a large foraging party, which was defeated by an army of local levies under the command of Æthelwulf, Ealdorman of Berkshire, at the Battle of Englefield.
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After another four days, around the 4th January 871, Æthelred & Alfred brought up the main West Saxon army & joined Æthelwulf's forces for an attack on the Danes. The West Saxons fought their way to the town, slaughtering all the Danes they found outside, but when they reached the town gate the Vikings burst out & defeated the West Saxons with a successful counter-attack. Among the dead was Æthelwulf, whose body was secretly carried off to be buried in his native Derby. According to a late source, Æthelred & Alfred only escaped due their better knowledge of the local terrain, which allowed them to lose their pursuers by fording the River Loddon.
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Their surviving forces regrouped at Windsor & four days later Æthelred & Alfred were victorious at the Battle of Ashdown, but they were then defeated again at the battles of Basing & Meretun. Soon after Easter, which fell on 15 April in that year, Æthelred died & was succeeded by Alfred.
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The Battle of Reading can be dated because Bishop Heahmund of Sherborne died in the Battle of Meretun, & it is known that he died on 22 March 871. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that the Battle of Basing was two months earlier, dating it to 22 January, Ashdown fourteen days before that on 8 January, Reading four days earlier on 4 January, Englefield another four days earlier on 31 December 870 & the arrival of the Vikings in Reading three days earlier on 28 December. However, as the two-month interval between Meretun & Basing is probably not exact, the earlier dates are approximate.
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Forwarded from wandering spΛrtan
Those of defeated spirit are to be discarded like the gangrenous, rotting member that they are, lest they afflict the whole with the disease of their cowardice.
We must erect a society in which the sight of cowards and weaklings never reaches the eyes of children.
We must erect a society in which the sight of cowards and weaklings never reaches the eyes of children.
Forwarded from European Tribalism - Mythology, European culture, survival
On culture
Culture is the visible manifestation of a racial spirit.
You cannot have the same culture in racially different environments.
Protecting the racial coherence means protecting culture.
Miscegenation between two races will lead to a terrible decay of both cultures.
@EuropeanTribalism
Culture is the visible manifestation of a racial spirit.
You cannot have the same culture in racially different environments.
Protecting the racial coherence means protecting culture.
Miscegenation between two races will lead to a terrible decay of both cultures.
@EuropeanTribalism
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Forwarded from 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 (Nic)
ANCESTORS
When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.
When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.
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Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)
Entrance into the Earth by Gilbert Williams
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Forwarded from Operation Werewolf Official
“There Lancelot, low and softly to himself singing, the sun greeted - life from darkness lifted, shining in the dome of heaven by death exalted.
Ever times would change and tides alter, and o’er hills of morning hope come striding to awake the weary, while the world lasted.”
Wishing a powerful Summer Solstice to those who observe.
XCII
Ever times would change and tides alter, and o’er hills of morning hope come striding to awake the weary, while the world lasted.”
Wishing a powerful Summer Solstice to those who observe.
XCII
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Forwarded from 𝕰𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕺𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓.
“The Valkyries thereby lead the warrior home. And he is by no means on his own. But he will have to learn how to listen to his inner voice, from where She will guide him.”
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Forwarded from ELYSIVM
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains – mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature’s workshops.”
John Muir
John Muir
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