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It’s January of 871, still…
A tremendous amount has happened in the last fortnight, and the year had barely even begun. People tend to compress the past… especially periods they are unfamiliar with… into short blurbs. It’s why many people are completely willing to accept minute by minute accounts of World War II, but balk at the idea of spending more than an episode per decade during the Anglo Saxon era.
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Your little blurb at the beginning reminded me of mike duncan’s Revolution Podcast and when he was covering the french revolution and 1793 took a good while to get through because everything hit the fan then.