334 – No Cnut November
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 entire Kingdom to the Danes.
14 Nov 201932min
333 – The Conquest of England
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 former glory. It had none of the military prowess es...
8 Nov 201933min
Teig O’Kane and the Corpse
Happy Halloween
31 Okt 201923min
332 – The Jomsvikings
So here we are. With two full companies of Jomsvikings laying waste to southern England… and in response, the nobility… the people tasked with defending the population and the Kingdom… decided that t...
25 Okt 201929min
331 – Thoughts and Prayers
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 King Sweyn Forkbeard, having been paid a king’s ransom, had withdrawn his forces with a promise never to return.
17 Okt 201924min
330 – The Purge
The Court of AEthelred had turned over three times during his reign. First, there was his regency council. Then, when he took full power he replaced his regency council with his young friends and cor...
7 Okt 201927min
329 – Forkbeard
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 supposed to eat but do anyway because it is deliciou...
27 Sep 201932min
328 – The St Brice’s Day Massacre
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 only a minor Duchy, and for a fairly short amount of t...
20 Sep 201923min
