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Inglese Lettaratura
Inglese Lettaratura
Heptarchy
After the Anglo-Saxon invasion, Great Britain was divided into several kingdoms, and in each kingdom there
was a king and they were: East Anglia (frome East Angles), Essex (east Saxons), kent, mercia, Northumbria,
mercia and Wessex.
The Vikings
the Vikings were from norway, sweden and denmark, and attacked the Lindisfarne monastery in 793.
the king Alfred the Great of Wessex had joined the Anglo Saxons to defeat the Vikings, and reconquered
the occupied territories and established the currency
the normans were Vikings who had settled in the north of france, and were led by William a duke. In 1066,
William invaded Great Britain