Today, the 101st anniversary of the massacre of St. Price’s Day in England, by order of the King of Sixthon Ethiral UNRIDI, on November 13, 1002, which corresponds to St. Price’s day, and refers to the name of the massacre to St. St. Price, who is a bishop. Tours “who dates back to the fifth century, and was celebrating November 13, as his Eid.
And the massacre of St.
Price, which is an ethnic cleansing of the Danish in England by the Sixon King Ethiral, which angered the Danish king Soyen Forkberry, paved the way for the occupation of England, so he launched his strikes between the years (1002-1005, 1006-1007, 1009-1012) until he succeeded in occupying it in general 1003 and became the king of England and became the first 26 -year -old Danish invasion.
According to a number of reports, England had been destroyed by the Danish invasions starting from a year from 997 to 1001, and in 1002, King “UNRIDE” was told that the Danish men in England will come to his life, and then all his advisers, and they will possess his kingdom after that, and in response to these conversations He ordered the killing of all Danish who live in England.
Some believe that this massacre that paved the way for the occupation of England, especially because of the anger of the Danish king, then he launched successive strikes until he succeeded in occupying it in 1003, and became the king of England and became the first kings of the Danish invasion, which lasted 26 years and the death of Sueen five weeks after he assumed power so UNRIDE returned from Normandy’s exile and ruled the country for a short period because he died, leaving the country in a state of chaos due to the conflict over the caliphate between two royal sons (Edmund Aironside and Kanot the Great).
Historians believe that there are great losses in life, although there is no evidence of any specific estimates, among those who believed they killed the Gonagd, who may have been the sister of King Soyen I, King of Denmark, and her husband may have died Balge Tuksen.
In 2008, 34 to 38 young skeletons were found between 16 and 25 years old, during the excavation at St. John College, Oxford.
The chemical analysis conducted by researchers at Oxford University in 2012 indicated that the remains are for Viking soldiers, and the old scars on the bones show that they were professional warriors, and it is believed that they were stabbed again and again and then brutally slaughtered, which is in line with the historical records of burning the church that During the massacre, the Danish tried to hide from the oppression of the British by hiding inside it, but they set fire to it.
The massacre that took place in Oxford was justified by a royal author in 1004, and historians generally view the massacre as a political action that helped arousing the invasion of Swin in 1003, and Simon Keynes described it in his article in Oxford Online on DNB about the massacre as a “massacre” The reaction of a people who were slaughtered and looted for ten years, and was not directed against the residents of Danilo Province, but rather to the mercenaries who turned from their employers..
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