Episode: 54: More England, More Normans
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English - August 22, 2022 02:36 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode #53: England Before the Norman Invasion
Synopsis Part two of the run up to the arrival of Queen Matilda and that other guy…what was his name…William the Conqueror. Yeah. Him. Includes Danelaw, Danegeld, surprising connections to Hamlet, an explanation of whether Aethelred the Unready was really unready, and of course a discussion of Eric the Viking! Annotations 1/ We have obviously linked …