(Download) Astonishing Legends The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England
❀ Peter Sawyer ❀
| #4075879 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2013-03-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.50 x9.20l,.0 | File Name: 0199253935 | 168 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Where did the money come from?|By JPS|With this short little book (less than 120 pages of text) derived from a lecture given in the 1990s and updated since, Peter Sawyer seeks to explain how England managed to pay the Danegeld time and time again between 980 and 1018. The premise to this quest is that Britain had no gold mines and its lead and tin mines yielded little silver b||It is testimony to the strength of Sawyer's original ideas that so much has not only survived decades of research, including his own extensive contributions, but has been corroborated by it. * Scott Ashley, English Historical * For nearly fifty years, Profe
How did the Anglo-Saxons obtain the treasure that tempted Vikings to raid England frequently in the ninth century and again between 980 and 1018? As Britain then had no gold mine and its lead mines yielded very little silver, this treasure must have been imported. Some may have been given, but most was obtained by trade. Until the ninth century the main source was Francia where there was a lively demand for English produce. Cross Channel trade flourished, much of it pas...
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