The Moon has crossed the Sun above Britain for more than a thousand years. But every time it happened, Britain was a completely different world. 🌑 878 AD A man standing in Anglo Saxon England looks up as the Sun disappears. Only months earlier, Alfred the Great had defeated the Vikings at Edington, one of the defining moments in the survival of his kingdom. No England as we know it. No electricity. No clocks. Just a darkened Sun above a land of Saxons and Vikings. 🌑 934 Ano

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