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Season 7 Episode 273
Last episode we talked about the rapid growth of AEthelflaed’s power, Edward’s militarizing AEthelflaed’s borders, Edward visiting her at her capital…
8 years, 6 months ago
The End of the Age of AEthelflaed
Season 7 Episode 272
Trying to tell the story of AEthelflaed is like trying to study gravity. We know her indirectly, by the impressions she left and the political shifts…
8 years, 6 months ago
How to Break a Kingdom in Six Months
Season 7 Episode 271
For the last several years, the Anglo Saxons had been on a true war footing. AEthelflaed and Edward had been showing skill and audacity in the field,…
8 years, 6 months ago
War in the Five Boroughs
Season 7 Episode 270
There’s an entry from the Irish Fragmentary annals that caught my attention. It talks about the defeat of Hroald and Ohter at the hands of AEthelflae…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Western Front
Season 7 Episode 269
Wessex and Mercia have had a busy decade. Both kingdoms militarized their borders, fought off invasion forces, and even took the offensive and marche…
8 years, 7 months ago
Viking Invasion
Season 7 Episode 268
AEthelflaed, Lady of Mercia, and her brother, King Edward, had been bringing the fight to the Danes… they had been stretching their borders into Dani…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Southern Expansion
Season 7 Episode 267
O potent elfleda! Maid, men’s terror! You did conquer nature’s self; worthy The name of man! More beauteous nature’s form of A woman; but your valour…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Rise of AEthelflaed and the Breaking of Northumbria
Season 7 Episode 266
The Battle of Tettenhall, as we discussed last episode, remains a mystery to us. We aren’t certain of the circumstances that started the battle, exac…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Battle of Tettenhall; and Zombies, maybe.
Season 7 Episode 265
There is so much that the Chronicle hides from us after the death of Alfred. Edward’s apple seems to have fallen fairly far from the tree, because th…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Lost Rebellion
Season 7 Episode 264
In the year 909 we get an odd entry from the Chronicle. “This year St. Oswald’s body was removed from Bardney into Mercia.” It’s an weird entry that …
8 years, 8 months ago