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Hereward the Wake the folk hero of the Fens will be opening the Hereward Wargames Show in Peterborough UK at 10am on Sunday 7th September.
Tickets £3 & details at hereward-wargames.co.uk
A near contemporary source for Hereward is Domesday Book (1086) where the entries for a Hereward in South Lincolnshire in 1066 are universally accepted as being the same Hereward cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1071. Curiously though, Hereward is not named as the holder of a manor at Bourne (Linc's) where the Gesta Herwardi states he was lord.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings a series of rebellions broke out across a defeated and demoralised Anglo Saxon state that lay prostrate under the oppressive grip of William 'the Conqueror' and his barbaric Norman knights.
Uprisings in Kent, Chester, Durham and York, led by various disaffected English nobles, were savagely and mercilessly beaten down and quashed, with thousands upon thousands slaughtered or left to perish in the devastation and ethnic cleansing that came to be known as the 'Harrying of the North'.
In the Fenlands to the east one of history's mysterious shadowy-figures by name of Hereward 'the Outlaw' rose to the fore and, armed with a multitude of dissidents, peasants and refugees, stopped the most formidable fighting force of the time dead in its tracks, inflicting humiliating damage to their number.
After a resistance of what appears to have been at least eighteen months, the fortified monastery on the Isle of Ely in the southern Fenlands eventually capitulated, through treachery, and Hereward is reported to have fled, disappearing into the mists of the wild fen and on into legend..
Legend says he's still out there, watching, waiting, ready to rise up and defend his folk in their hour of need. Seen in Ely at the weekend Hereward the Wake was being filmed for a forthcoming historical documentary before disappearing back into the wild fens...
The Floor is Normans Hereward the Wake Also Herewar #oldenglish #ealdenglisc #englisc #anglosaxon #herewardthewake
The Greenwood!
Tues 18th Nov 2014
Last night we attended a panel discussion, run as part of the "Being Human" Festival of the Humanities. It was all about ballads and storytelling and how the myths of Robin Hood have been created and perpetuated. It was fascinating! Not exactly relevant to my own research, of course, but I did manage to throw Hereward the Wake into the mix! :)
A really fun, and unusual, way to spend a drizzly Monday evening!
About to lay down a new track with Hereward the Wake. #recording #herewardthewake #HTWM #music #77Recording
