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A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast
Afterwards Battles produce corpses, multitudes of them. In a mass killing such as the Battle of Hastings, almost 1,000 years ago, hosts of living humans were transformed into corpses, bodies were strewn across mud and grass. The rituals of treating the …