Think, Laugh, Cry #50
How a medieval monk's chronicle of a Viking massacre reveals what soap, combs, and bath day taught historians about evidence, memory, and myth.
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THINK
Sometime in the middle of the thirteenth century, a monk at St Albans sat down to explain a massacre.