A Chinese-born writer's quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast
Briefly

"Battles produce corpses, multitudes of them. In a mass killing such as the Battle of Hastings, almost 1,000 years ago, hosts of living humans were transformed into corpses, bodies were strewn across mud and grass."
"But soon these membranes, the soft and hard tissues, lost their integrity in the cold rain. Rats would have run around in ecstasy feasting on the fragmented flesh."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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