And I live in the town in which he is buried, suitably named Bury St Edmunds.
@mikeycraig8970
3 жыл бұрын
Bury comes from the Old English (Anglo Saxon) for 'burh' which means fortified town. It doesn't mean to bury in the ground.
@stokesy887
3 жыл бұрын
@@mikeycraig8970 learn something new everyday! Just a happy coincidence
@mikeycraig8970
3 жыл бұрын
@@stokesy887 No worries mate. Look up the burh system, interesting tactic Ælfred the Great devised to protect his people and towns from the Vikings. They were up and down the country, you clearly live in one lol. I live near one, Wareham. The defences were that good at Wareham a thousand years later the US army used them during WWII, they'll be videos on here. The existing banks will make you pant trying to get to the top (a thousand plus years ago there'd have been a wooden palisade on top of that with Englishmen atop of that chucking spears at any Scandinavians who happened to wonder by) of it after climbing out of the massive ditch which would've been much deeper. It's a serious defence now, it would've been impenetrable when first created. I've been through Bury St. Edmunds, years ago when I was a teen. Liked history but didn't really delve into it like now so wouldn't have known what to look for then. But if any part of the area has any very tall banks of earth, it's a good chance that's your towns defences and possibly part of the burh.
@Northman_Roams
9 ай бұрын
My house coat of arms to this day carries the house of St.Edmund.
@rodrigodiaz3753
4 жыл бұрын
Pardon me. Why not St. Dunstan? He was from Wessex, no?
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