Orm Gamal suna bohte Sanctus Gregorius Minster ðonne hit wæs æl tobrocan and tofalan and he hit let macan newan from grunde Christe and Sanctus Gregorius in Eadward dagum cyning and in Tosti dagum eorl.
Do you ever wish for another life? mine would be in the Saxon period with the Scandinavians coming in to colonise - not too brutal of course. In the Domesday book in 1066, Orm was the landowner of this village, a jarl or earl and had many more land holdings in the area. In 1086 it was Hugh, son of Baldric, officially called Tenant-in-Chief, the value of the village had fallen from £12 to £5 during these dates. This great book of taxation tells us there were 21 villagers but only 2.1 households. Situated twenty odd miles from York an ecclesiastical centre that had a lot of power and various personalities vying for top dog.
England at this time did not really exist as a whole unit, we were a country of tiny kingdoms, though some were large like Mercia. This part of the country would have been Northumbria, though before that, the kingdoms of Deira and Bernicia.
Note; Before 1066. Tostig the son of Earl Godwin of Wessex and the brother of Harold II the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, was earl of Northumbria from 1055 to 1065.
Jorvik, thought to mean 'Wild Boar Settlement' or York was a Scandinavian stronghold, today a 'reality' museum captures the people and smells of an age, where these industrious people worked. Damp conditions, parasitical worms, fleas, etc it wasn't exactly a wholesome life, but in Coppergate they plied their trades, Jorvik was a stronghold of the Danelaw territory.
As our village belonged to the manor of Kirkbymoorside, I suspect that Orm only visited as a landowner, and was kept fairly busy looking after all his other landholdings and presumably collecting the annual tax of grain and animals.
The rampaging spirit of the Vikings had been tamed but they would have brought a fierce presence to the Anglo-Saxons living here. The spirit captured in the hogback tombstones found at Lythe or Lastingham.
to be cont..
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2010/04/look-at-whitby.html
Do you ever wish for another life? mine would be in the Saxon period with the Scandinavians coming in to colonise - not too brutal of course. In the Domesday book in 1066, Orm was the landowner of this village, a jarl or earl and had many more land holdings in the area. In 1086 it was Hugh, son of Baldric, officially called Tenant-in-Chief, the value of the village had fallen from £12 to £5 during these dates. This great book of taxation tells us there were 21 villagers but only 2.1 households. Situated twenty odd miles from York an ecclesiastical centre that had a lot of power and various personalities vying for top dog.
England at this time did not really exist as a whole unit, we were a country of tiny kingdoms, though some were large like Mercia. This part of the country would have been Northumbria, though before that, the kingdoms of Deira and Bernicia.
Note; Before 1066. Tostig the son of Earl Godwin of Wessex and the brother of Harold II the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, was earl of Northumbria from 1055 to 1065.
As our village belonged to the manor of Kirkbymoorside, I suspect that Orm only visited as a landowner, and was kept fairly busy looking after all his other landholdings and presumably collecting the annual tax of grain and animals.
The rampaging spirit of the Vikings had been tamed but they would have brought a fierce presence to the Anglo-Saxons living here. The spirit captured in the hogback tombstones found at Lythe or Lastingham.
to be cont..
https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2010/04/look-at-whitby.html
Yes indeed. Either the Iron Age or the 1920s for the fashions and dancing.
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Were they 'berseckers in the 1920s Aril ;)? Mind you there are a few round Whitby when the Goths make an appearance.
ReplyDeleteSorry I don't know what 'berseckers are?
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Mad viking warriors ;)
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Ah now I see! Cheers.
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Food for thought Thelma - might do a blog arising from thinking about this.
ReplyDeleteI presume choosing another life, Saxons female were on the whole in charge of their lives, always fancied one of theose chatelaine belts with my housekeeping tools attached.
ReplyDeleteAnother life and time, hmmm.. I think it would be more a matter of where than when for me as life is about my surroundings and what that brings.
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