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.
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.
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.
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
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 has a chapter called “The Conques...
17 Jan 202024min
338 – The Fall of King Edmund Ironsides
Edmund hadn’t lost, and for now that was enough.
27 Dec 201937min
337 – The Rise of King Edmund Ironside
Can you feel it? It feels like there is a lull before the storm. AEthelred Unread is now gone, and Normandy is now officially on the board. 1066 is on the doorstep.
22 Dec 201931min
