269 – The Western Front
Wessex and Mercia have had a busy decade. Both kingdoms militarized their borders, fought off invasion forces, and even took the offensive and marched into neighboring kingdoms. And even though the Ch...
23 Feb 201827min
268 – Viking Invasion
AEthelflaed, Lady of Mercia, and her brother, King Edward, had been bringing the fight to the Danes… they had been stretching their borders into Danish controlled lands and they haven’t just been on t...
16 Feb 201827min
267 – The Southern Expansion
O potent elfleda! Maid, men’s terror! You did conquer nature’s self; worthy The name of man! More beauteous nature’s form of A woman; but your valour shall secure Man’s higher name. For name you only ...
1 Feb 201825min
266 – The Rise of AEthelflaed and the Breaking of Northumbria
The Battle of Tettenhall, as we discussed last episode, remains a mystery to us. We aren’t certain of the circumstances that started the battle, exactly where the battle took place, nor which Anglo Sa...
27 Jan 201823min
265 – The Battle of Tettenhall; and Zombies, maybe.
There is so much that the Chronicle hides from us after the death of Alfred. Edward’s apple seems to have fallen fairly far from the tree, because the record his court produces during his reign is spa...
13 Jan 201831min
264 – The Lost Rebellion
In the year 909 we get an odd entry from the Chronicle. “This year St. Oswald’s body was removed from Bardney into Mercia.” It’s an weird entry that caps a very strange section of the Chronicle. In th...
5 Jan 201838min
263 – AEthelflaed and Ingimund
When we left off last episode, war had come to Mercia. Ingimund and his Scandinavian allies abandoned their peace treaty and were seeking to expand their borders, but according to the Irish Annals and...
6 Dec 201724min
262 – AEthelred and AEthelflaed
A year after Edward took the throne – in year 901, while he was still fighting AEthelwold’s rebellion – something strange appeared in the Charters. This event doesn’t get discussed in the Chronicle. B...
1 Dec 201727min
