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Season 7 Episode 297
We have spoken a lot about the life of a handful of individuals – namely the rulers that have descended from the line of Alfred. There are a couple o…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Halloween Special
Season 7
I love Halloween. I think it might be my favorite holiday, and it’s not really because I like spooky things. I actually kind of hate horror movies. T…
7 years, 11 months ago
Darkening Skies
Season 7 Episode 296
It begins in France. The struggle for power between King Louis IV and Hugh the Great had been raging for quite some time… When we last visited the co…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Return of England
Season 7 Episode 295
You know the pieces on a chessboard? There’s the knight, and the queen, and the castle….and then there’s the bishop. There’s a reason why a game that…
7 years, 11 months ago
It All Comes Crashing Down
Season 7 Episode 294
The story of the last few episodes is a story about a lesson that humanity has had to re-learn again and again throughout history. When your society …
8 years ago
The Beacons are Lit
Season 7 Episode 293
When we left off, AEthelstan had recently died, Olaf had returned from Dublin and been crowned King of Jorvik (which meant that the Kingdom of Jorvik…
8 years ago
King in the North
Season 7 Episode 292
How we understand any event comes down to what angle we are able to view it from. And the story of AEthelstan is no exception. On the one hand, it is…
8 years ago
Pandemonium
Season 7 Episode 291
When King Edward died, the plan was that his second son would take the throne. By all indications, neither Edward nor the power structures within Wes…
8 years, 1 month ago
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
Season 7 Episode 290
Brunanburh had been a titanic struggle. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle speaks of how the fighting lasted from morning to night, until “the field grew dark…
8 years, 1 month ago
Brunanburh
Season 7 Episode 289
You can’t just go to war. I mean… I guess you can. But it’s not a good idea. War takes work. It takes planning. It takes preparation. War, to put it …
8 years, 1 month ago