344 – Cnut’s Mad Lads
In the year of 1021, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle tells us two things. A Bishop died. And Thorkell the Tall was expelled from the country. And that’s all it tells us. The post 344 – Cnut’s Mad Lads first...
12 Mars 202029min
343 – By Thorkell’s Beard
This is a story of palace intrigue, murder, and atypical alopecia… and it all begins where these things usually do… with a real estate transaction. The post 343 – By Thorkell’s Beard first appeared on...
27 Feb 202022min
Bonus Episode: Shrove Tuesday
Today is Shrove Tuesday. And if you’re not in Britain, you might be wondering what Shrove Tuesday is, and even if you are British, you might be wondering why you’re celebrating it. The post Bonus Epis...
25 Feb 202010min
342 – King Cnut of Denmark and England
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, the greatest and most powerful monarch of his time, ...
14 Feb 202029min
341 – King Cnut of England
Cnut made a lot of smart moves in a very short amount of time. He outlawed much of the corruption that had plagued the courts of AEthelred. He scrubbed his new kingdom of the loyalists to Edmund Irons...
5 Feb 202028min
340 – A Bit of a Cnut
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 rejected the suggestion, and instead outlawed Eadwi...
23 Jan 202032min
339 – Cnut the Conqueror
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 there in the title. Virtually every book on this era ha...
17 Jan 202024min
338 – The Fall of King Edmund Ironsides
Edmund hadn’t lost, and for now that was enough. He had shown himself to be a contender. So Ironside took his remaining men and marched East… but the accounts are careful to point out that he stayed n...
27 Dec 201937min
