Saints & Sinners

In this new free e-book, available exclusively on Ancient Origins, regular contributor Charles Christian wittily weaves together five tales of political back-stabbings and betrayals, blood-drenched battles, torrid sexual scandals, religious upheavals, and supernatural occurrences from the English Dark Ages – from the departure of the Roman legions to the arrival of the Norman warlords. It was a time when history, myth and legend were inextricably linked as Britons, Saxons, Vikings and Normans all fought for supremacy of a cold, mist-shrouded, ghost-haunted island where truth really was stranger than fiction.