Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the King of York
After the death of athelstan in year nine 39, just two years after brunenburg. Athelstan had never married and he didn't have any children,. So the new king was his younger brother, edmund, the one who had fought alongside him at brunenburg. Edmund was a teen ager. The next six kings were all very young. All but one was the tean ager. And it's easy to lump the next five together because they all had very similar names - edmund, edred, edwy, edgar and edward. Collectively, their reigns covered a period of about forty years. This time we'll focus on verst two.
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