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“When it was originally discussed that modern researchers were to travel back in time, no-one thought it would end in a battle with Vikings.”

“Which is exactly what has happened.”

“According to Saxon Traveller project leader Professor Adrian Taylor, researcher Michael Hunter found himself in a battle to protect Giolgrave, the 11th century Saxon village where he had been living, from a group of marauding Vikings.”

“So what do his teammates in the 21st Century do? Well, they decide to go back one-thousand years in time to help!”

“According to some military sources, while the details on that fateful decision—to allow the men to join their comrade in the 11th Century—is likely to result in a military court martial, what started as a rescue mission ended in a battle the likes of which not even our bloodiest movies can come close to replicating.”

“So for the men, women, and children of the small village of Giolgrave, the heroic men of Project Saxon Traveller put their lives on the line, but not with the modern weapons, with which they had been originally trained, but with swords, shields, and primitive helmets like these...”

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