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'Toad Testicles' and 'Boar-Biter': The Nicknames of Winchester, c.1110.
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'Toad Testicles' and 'Boar-Biter': The Nicknames of Winchester, c.1110.
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A colourful and shocking set of nicknames in early medieval Winchester leave historians as confused as they are amused; what might they have meant?

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