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Season 8 Episode 342
If you have heard of King Cnut, what you probably heard was the story of Cnut and the Tides. The most common version of it goes like this. “Canute, t…
6 years, 1 month ago
A Bit of a Cnut
Season 8 Episode 340
When we left off, Cnut had managed to get Eadric to go on the record calling for the execution of the English claimants to the throne… and then Cnut …
6 years, 1 month ago
Cnut the Conqueror
Season 8 Episode 339
It’s been a strange few years. The fall of the House of Wessex and the rise of Cnut looks like a simple story of conquest. After all, it’s right ther…
6 years, 2 months ago
Acts of Spasmodic Violence
Season 8 Episode 335
Morcar and Sigeferth were under a lot of stress. These two noble brothers from the North had only just managed to join the Wulf dynasty through Sigef…
6 years, 3 months ago
No Cnut November
Season 8 Episode 334
There are worse things than spending a holiday in Normandy. And one of those things is spending a holiday in Normandy because you just lost your enti…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Conquest of England
Season 8 Episode 333
England in 1013 was a Kingdom begging to be conquered. Decades of bad decisions have eroded its foundations and now it sat as a mere shadow of its fo…
6 years, 4 months ago
The Jomsvikings
Season 8 Episode 332
So here we are. With two full companies of Jomsvikings laying waste to southern England… and in response, the nobility… the people tasked with defen…
6 years, 4 months ago
Thoughts and Prayers
Season 8 Episode 331
AEthelred, for the first time in quite a while, had a chance for a breather. King Sweyn Forkbeard, having been paid a king’s ransom, had withdrawn h…
6 years, 5 months ago
Forkbeard
Season 8 Episode 329
When you go to your local grocery store there’s a pattern. You go down your usual aisles, grab your bread, your tea, that thing you know you’re not s…
6 years, 5 months ago
The St Brice's Day Massacre
Season 8 Episode 328
The year 1002 was still 64 years away from 1066, but The House of Normandy had already begun a coup upon the Kingdom of England. The dynasty held onl…
6 years, 5 months ago