Matt Lewis

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

Brice's day. matched

The legalised murdering of any Dane in England, any and all Danes in England, anyone of Danish heritage. matched

there's no way to say this that isn't genocide. matched

He essentially tells everybody it's legal to kill Danes today. matched

encourage you to do it. matched

And was it just confined to that day? matched

Yes. matched

The idea was that everybody would move and take the Danish community by surprise on that day. matched

So we have, for example, we know that this took place in Oxford. matched

There are charters that note that the Danes fled out of Oxford to St. matched

Frideswide Church in search of safety, but that the locals burned the church down with them in it. matched

Christians burning a church down with the people in it. matched

have been Christianised by this point, but they're still being viewed as, you know, othered outsiders and they're taking refuge in a Christian church, which you would think would pull people up in the medieval world. matched

But the king has given you permission to do whatever it takes today. matched

And mass graves have been found of bodies in Oxford that show signs of severe trauma that date from this period too. matched

So probably mass graves and DNA analysis shows that those people have Danish heritage too. matched

So these are probably victims of the St. matched

Brice's Day massacre. matched

actually managed to kill all of them, but it was nationwide. matched

This was a serious matched

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