History of the Viking burial ground

I HAVE found it very interesting reading about the things found on the Ridgeway, particularly the Viking burial ground.

I have read a few fictional stories by the Irish author Peter Tremayne all about 7th Century Ireland. He always mentions some historical fact.

In one story, called The Spider’s Web, he says that in seventh century Ireland, if a child was born deformed in any way, that child was nurtured and greatly cared for all of its life, and also the poor people and sick people were cared for.

But if a Saxon had a deformed child born to him, that child was killed at birth.

So I think the Saxons must have been a very brutal race of people.

DOROTHY M JAMES, Lodmoor Hill, Weymouth

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