010: Because Aethelred

What does Aethelred do after he's given a second chance at kingship and his enemy abruptly leaves to regroup? Well, he does the most Aethelredian thing he can, of course - he Aethelredly listens, in my opinion, to Eadric Streona! And with a new lease on ruling England, he Aethelreds it up as only an Aethelred can! (I'm learning that the name Aethelred is like the "f-word"...there's almost an unlimited number of usages depending on the context. It'll catch on after a thousand years, don't worry.)

On today's episode, we approach the end of this first bend in our overall story of the late middle ages with the deaths of Anglo-Saxon England's last remaining vestiges of local greatness, and the flickers of what's to come. As in all stories, when one arc closes there's another that always opens.

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