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Hace 1 día · Alfred the Great (also spelled Ælfred; c.849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
Hace 2 días · Athelstan. Played by George Blagden (seasons 1–4) An Anglo-Saxon monk from the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. Captured by Ragnar on his first raid, Athelstan is constantly torn between the customs of Christian England and the pagan ways of Scandinavia. Athelstan becomes a confidant of King Ecbert after he is captured by ...
Hace 3 días · Æthelstan: The First King of England. Sarah Foot. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780300125351; 336pp.; Price: £30.00. Reviewer: Dr Rory Naismith. Clare College, Cambridge. Citation: Dr Rory Naismith, review of Æthelstan: The First King of England, (review no. 1151) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1151.
Hace 6 días · Following the reconquest of remaining Danish-held territory, completed in 927 by Alfred’s grandson Athelstan, the kings of Wessex became kings of England. The region figures prominently in legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table , and the designation “Wessex” was used by novelist Thomas Hardy to represent the region of ...
Hace 4 días · A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. Practicing evil spells or incantations was proscribed and punishable in early human civilizations in the Middle East. In medieval Europe, witch-hunts often arose in connection to charges of heresy from Christianity.
Hace 6 días · Edmund I was the king of the English (939–946), who recaptured areas of northern England that had been occupied by the Vikings. He was the son of the West Saxon king Edward the Elder (reigned 899–924) and Eadgifu and the half brother of King Athelstan (reigned 924–939), under whom the political.
1 de may. de 2024 · The Real Mythology Behind Vikings. Vikings Got The Foundations Of Norse Culture Right. Vikings takes inspiration from the Norse sagas, stories about voyages and battles written in the 13th century. Ragnar Lothbrok is a prominent figure in these, with his own sagas and tales recounting his life and travels.
