Many years after the site at Repton was discovered in 1982, she came across it as part of her PhD research. It was the bead that caught Jarman’s attention. Their own dead were buried with more respect, along with brooches, necklaces, and exotic carnelian beads. The victims of the Vikings were dumped en masse, while nearby four children were laid to rest after some kind of grisly sacrificial ceremony. The fort would be where they planned their future campaigns.īut Repton also became the site of a vast grave. This the Vikings used to beach the longboats that had taken them deep into England. After attacking the monastery there, the marauding Scandinavians then enslaved many luckless locals and forced them to build a fort by the nearby River Trent. In 873, Repton was the site of a massacre by the Great Viking Army. But it is here that Cat Jarman begins her brilliant new history of the Vikings. The sleepy village of Repton in south Derbyshire seems like an unlikely starting point for a voyage halfway around the world.
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