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So I think a lot of these are just probing raids at first, but they're proof of concept and then they come in force. For example, there was one
king in England, his name was Ethelred the Unready, which is a pretty funny... Pun on his name. But he paid, in one year,
7.5 million silver pennies to the Vikings to get them to go away, which is a bit like someone's mugging you, so you pay them more money so they'll go away.
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