Introduction

This is episode 50, a unified family of english speakers. In this episode, we 're going to look at how the anglo saxons conquered the danes and re claimed the dane law. This was the beginning of the nation state of england. Within a couple of generations after alfred's death, it was hard to find a territory in england, france or germany that didn't have some type of family connection to alfred. So one of the underlying themes of this episode is family and family relationships.