00:00Saxon warlord Berthnoff faces a Viking invasion army right at the Blackwater Riverbank.
00:07Why did the seasoned English defenders willingly step aside and let heavily armed raiders cross
00:13unmolested? Tactical doctrine favored attacking them on the causeway, but the aldermen offered
00:19them passage. He let them cross the narrow tidal bridge to trap them on the mainland for honorable
00:25slaughter. That fatal adherence to heroic pride doomed his forces and sealed the Saxon defeat.
