Ten Minute English and British History #04 -Alfred the Great and the Rise of Wessex
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Christian
Surprisingly my CK3 Alfred was much more accomplished. He allied with Mercia and East Anglia after the fall of Northumbria. Then fending off the Vikings until a lull occurred and retook Northumbria. After which Mercia, East Anglia, and Cornwall all submitted to his rule, declaring himself king of England. Never agin did the Vikings return.
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Surprisingly my CK3 Alfred was much more accomplished. He allied with Mercia and East Anglia after the fall of Northumbria. Then fending off the Vikings until a lull occurred and retook Northumbria. After which Mercia, East Anglia, and Cornwall all submitted to his rule, declaring himself king of England. Never agin did the Vikings return.
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Spud
Well, searching my memory, Alfred the Great is the only Anglo-Saxon knig to have a University level college named after him. I could be wrong, please let me know of any others, learning should never end, and I don't mind being corrected.
Went out with a couple of girls from King Alf's in Winchester back in the '90's, great days.
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Well, searching my memory, Alfred the Great is the only Anglo-Saxon knig to have a University level college named after him. I could be wrong, please let me know of any others, learning should never end, and I don't mind being corrected.
Went out with a couple of girls from King Alf's in Winchester back in the '90's, great days.
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The
I personally like to believe that Alfred was a great king but not as he is written. I believe that he did good and helped birth England which his sons completed but i do feel it wasnt really to unite the anglo-saxons but to make england a powerful country and make his family rich and powerful.
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I personally like to believe that Alfred was a great king but not as he is written. I believe that he did good and helped birth England which his sons completed but i do feel it wasnt really to unite the anglo-saxons but to make england a powerful country and make his family rich and powerful.
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Neil
Are the Battles of Necthansmere and Athelstaneford mentioned in these histories? They may have been quite important. Athelstaneford was 832 apparently, but then there's popularly conceived histories and what really happened and when. It would be nice to know about them if they're relevant.
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Are the Battles of Necthansmere and Athelstaneford mentioned in these histories? They may have been quite important. Athelstaneford was 832 apparently, but then there's popularly conceived histories and what really happened and when. It would be nice to know about them if they're relevant.
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Dropbear
There was nothing great about Alfred, and I do not speak of the Alfred portrayed in the Netflix series The Last Kingdom. I speak from facts in written history. He was as clever as a bag of rocks, a coward and whipped cuck of a husband. Alfred the PATHETIC is a far more apt description.
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There was nothing great about Alfred, and I do not speak of the Alfred portrayed in the Netflix series The Last Kingdom. I speak from facts in written history. He was as clever as a bag of rocks, a coward and whipped cuck of a husband. Alfred the PATHETIC is a far more apt description.
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marrrtin
Not every text of the Alfredian Renaissance was religious. I'm particularly intrigued by Alfred's version of Orosius, a late-classical compendium of history and geography, to which Alfred appended accounts of the Baltic and the White Sea given to him by mercenary Vikings.
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Not every text of the Alfredian Renaissance was religious. I'm particularly intrigued by Alfred's version of Orosius, a late-classical compendium of history and geography, to which Alfred appended accounts of the Baltic and the White Sea given to him by mercenary Vikings.
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History
Just to let everyone know, the rest of the videos in this series beginning with Episode #05 will be released on Fridays from now on. It's mainly algorithm stuff but the episodes that I've previously released on a Friday have done better than those on a Monday.
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Just to let everyone know, the rest of the videos in this series beginning with Episode #05 will be released on Fridays from now on. It's mainly algorithm stuff but the episodes that I've previously released on a Friday have done better than those on a Monday.
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Roger
(7: 35) Alfred interestingly begins his law code with a demand that all men keep the oaths they made. Also interestingly, the first order of business upon the convening of the first session of the United States Congress were laws regarding the taking of oaths.
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(7: 35) Alfred interestingly begins his law code with a demand that all men keep the oaths they made. Also interestingly, the first order of business upon the convening of the first session of the United States Congress were laws regarding the taking of oaths.
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adventus
Laughing at all those posters who are wondering why the only English King to be called Great hasn't got a fictional Northumbrian and his Irish chum (compulsory for Cornwell) soaking up the praise. I know many are joking, but I bet more than a few aren't.
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Laughing at all those posters who are wondering why the only English King to be called Great hasn't got a fictional Northumbrian and his Irish chum (compulsory for Cornwell) soaking up the praise. I know many are joking, but I bet more than a few aren't.
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Andreas
The term viking comes from an old nordic verb called viking. The are many runestones where a relative is said to have gone viking. I think the vikingr word you refer to comes from the old nordic verb. At least that's how it is taught in Scandinavia; -)
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The term viking comes from an old nordic verb called viking. The are many runestones where a relative is said to have gone viking. I think the vikingr word you refer to comes from the old nordic verb. At least that's how it is taught in Scandinavia; -)
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Hootie1980
Anyone else play CK3? I love to play as Aelfred the Great. Lady Eahlswith was beautiful, elegant, and noble. Ever since the release of Royal Court her character model looks more like the shot girl that works at the bar on the corner.
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Anyone else play CK3? I love to play as Aelfred the Great. Lady Eahlswith was beautiful, elegant, and noble. Ever since the release of Royal Court her character model looks more like the shot girl that works at the bar on the corner.
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ftroop2000
Most of my Viking/Anglo history comes from the tv shows, Vikings and The Last Kingdom
Yes, I know they're not historically accurate, but they give a vague outline of what happened overall.
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Most of my Viking/Anglo history comes from the tv shows, Vikings and The Last Kingdom
Yes, I know they're not historically accurate, but they give a vague outline of what happened overall.
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Jet
They never realy did include Uthred Ragnarson, son of Uthred, rightful heir to bebbanburg and lord of Northumbria in the saxon chronicles eventhough he was there and alfred did stand on his shoulder
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They never realy did include Uthred Ragnarson, son of Uthred, rightful heir to bebbanburg and lord of Northumbria in the saxon chronicles eventhough he was there and alfred did stand on his shoulder
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ConallC96
The man who's idea United a nation. Edward the elder and king athelstan made his ideas come true. Not to many fair Kings after then. Considering what was thought of as fair anyway.
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The man who's idea United a nation. Edward the elder and king athelstan made his ideas come true. Not to many fair Kings after then. Considering what was thought of as fair anyway.
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Freidrich
How you described Alfred as the sole 'Great' of England, somehow made me touched with it for a reason. Man, hope you can make a short documentary of the Glorious Revolution.
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How you described Alfred as the sole 'Great' of England, somehow made me touched with it for a reason. Man, hope you can make a short documentary of the Glorious Revolution.
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ChaoticSequencer
A great video until the last line, which was false. Alfred was never king of this land and there was someone who was king of that land who was The Great--Cnut.
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A great video until the last line, which was false. Alfred was never king of this land and there was someone who was king of that land who was The Great--Cnut.
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Adelbert
Alfred wasn't the only king in modern day england to wield the title the great. Cnut not only held the title but was one of the best king's england has ever seen.
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Alfred wasn't the only king in modern day england to wield the title the great. Cnut not only held the title but was one of the best king's england has ever seen.
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Richarizard
But like weren't the Angles and Jutes from the region now called Denmark and it was only like 300 years apart so why are they different now?
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But like weren't the Angles and Jutes from the region now called Denmark and it was only like 300 years apart so why are they different now?
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Hoodoo
Alfred the Good, perhaps. Not great, but meh. let me know when you discover more accounts from this period and maybe we can then call him Great.
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Alfred the Good, perhaps. Not great, but meh. let me know when you discover more accounts from this period and maybe we can then call him Great.
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