The Vikings Uncovered

Thank you Aurelia I will watch it tonight (when DH goes 'down the pub').

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The Vikings Uncovered is still available on BBC iPlayer for the next twelve days.

A link:

www.paintedchurch.org/stokeded.htm

FOUND IT AT LAST!

It was the martyr of St Edmund- in the lovely Church of Stoke Dry, in Rutland (which was previously part of Leicestershire... hence...). For those who want to Google it.

Of course Grumpa- oooops. The small Church is either in SE Leics or North Northants- I googled it and of course got the wrong Saint!!! So no wonder. Will try again. I remember it was also famous for being the place, in a small loft above the Church- where the Gunpowder plot was hatched.

Was it St. Sebastian by any chance, usually depicted full of arrows?

King Edmund was killed (in 869) by being tied to a tree and shot with lots of arrows so maybe the painting in the church was him. I would have liked to see the Vikings programme. I hope it is repeated.

Thought I would bump this back up, as somebody may know the church Granjura is talking about.

Yes it was really fascinating.

Now can anyone help me here. I remember visiting a small Church in North Northants where there was an 11C wall painting depicting Emmanuel (??) being pierced with arrows- and the 'attachers' were depicted as American Indians, wearing short skirst and mocassins and head-dress. It seems to be proof of the voyage to Newfoundland centuries before- but with the stories and descriptions carried on by the oral tradition over time- and represented in the wall painting.
Mesmerising- but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the village or Church. I hope it is featured later in the series.

One fact emerged, that Eric The Red ( a very naughty boy) was exiled from Norway and settled in Iceland with his followers, but before that made a visit to Britain for what turned out to be more than supplies.....when a DNA test was made recently in Iceland, three quarters of the males had Norweigan ancestry, and something like two thirds of the females had British ancestry.