Matt Lewis

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1,908 appearances 31 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard today

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

because you know what that feels like in your hand. matched

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doesn't begin as coexistence at all. matched

So the first encounter that the English appear to have with the Vikings comes in 789 at Portland in Devon. matched

So ship is sighted on the sea. matched

The royal officials come down to welcome them. matched

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you to the king so that you can see him and the Vikings jump off the ship and kill them all? matched

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Very much we don't come in peace. matched

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Yeah, so the most famous interaction that quite often is viewed as kick-starting the Viking Age matched

Britain is 8th of June, 793 on Lindisfarne, which is a monastic island. matched

And the Vikings land there. matched

There's been lots of portents before in the weather. matched

People are seeing lightning in the sky and the shapes of dragons in the clouds and things like that. matched

which then turns out to maybe be the prows of the Viking ships, these dragons emerging from the fog and matched

them. matched

And the Vikings are very clearly identifying places like Lindisfarne because the English as Christians now have a sense that monasteries are sacred. matched

who would attack a monastery? matched

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