SempaiScuba

@sempaiscuba.bsky.social

5 months ago

18 October 1016: A Danish army, led by #Cnut the Great, defeated King Edmund Ironside's English army in the Battle of #Assandun. #History

Stephanie Ellis

@stephellis.bsky.social

1 year ago

Cnut did #conjure conquest,
long before William.
His marauding hordes,
swamped the island,
killing hope, destroying hearth.
A Viking victory rarely told
in the cauldron of England's birth.

#vss365 #viking #Assandun