Anglo Saxon Houses - Home Sweet Home?

Anglo Saxon Houses - Home Sweet Home?

Author: Joshua Potts May 13, 2020 Duration: 10:53

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A heavy cloak of smoke hangs in the room, stinging your eyes and nostrils. The reeking smell of manure makes the single room of your family’s house an unpleasant place to stay. Right in the middle a large fire rages in a pit, spewing angry red flames towards a charred black pot boiling an ugly soup of water and stinging nettles, hanging on a metal rod over the fire. You hate the rough rags on your hard, cold bunk and you despise the prickly rushes on the floor. But this is your home. It is all you have ever known.

Research & Writing: Joshua Potts

Voice: Bill Odman

Music: Kevin Macleod, Alexander Nakarada, AShamaluev

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