Eddy Jackson MBE

The River Wyre Lancashire

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Hi this is Eddy Jackson on the banks of

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the Upper River Wyre Wyre

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in Celtic means a winding river

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and I've given the clue of the title here

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because I am at this part of Lancashire

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where the Celts the Norse people

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the Anglo Saxons and the Picts

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fought for supremacy it's a

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fairly unique river in the British

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Isles it's very short and

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from here on the high ground of the Bowland fells

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look west and twenty miles you could

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see where the river Wyre goes into Morecambe

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Bay so this area

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a thousand years ago in the dark

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ages was an area of contest

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between different tribes it is also

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- contest's about

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religion I'm interested in

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language because of

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storytelling and narrative

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and I'm using language to tell a

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story about a

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certain time in history about

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Norse people Celts and

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Picts and the story I

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tell is about a Norse settlement that's

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raided by Celts and

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some of the Norse people are carried off

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and it's a story of redemption because the

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Norse go back to

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capture the

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slavers so the stories

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is not only an adventure story and historical tale

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it's about the use of language to have

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cognisance a recognition

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to the power of nature not only are

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rivers aren't pollutted but the

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animals and the bees - and the

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birds in the vegetation and the

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plantations that surround the area they

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play an integral part of the story

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so here I am putting a contemporary environmental

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hat on and trace their roots back to

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when this was a wild

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natural habitat and that

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- habitat plays a part in supporting

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the heroine of

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of this story so the

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stories and adventure story and

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historical - fiction story

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