How a Sick Swamp King Saved England | Lore & Ruin |

Описание: By 878 AD, England was a graveyard. One man changed everything from a swamp.
The Great Heathen Army didn't just defeat England; they erased it. Northumbria, East Anglia, Mercia—all gone. Only Wessex remained, but its king had vanished.

This is the untold story of Alfred the Great. Not the powerful monarch on a throne, but the broken fugitive hiding in the freezing marshes of Somerset. He was sick, hunted, and humiliated (famously burning a peasant woman's bread).

But in that swamp, Alfred didn't just survive. He changed the rules of war. He built a "Ghost Army," weaponized hope, and turned a ragtag group of farmers into a wall of desperation that broke the most terrifying military force of the medieval world.

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