Episode 52: Bloody Axes and a Battle Royal
The History of English Podcast
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Welsh Poems - The Anglo Saxons
A welsh poem exists from this same period, which describes how this alliance was being formed. The poet is almost giddy at the prospect of driving the anglo saxons out of britain. He describes how the welsh have allied with the scots and the other celtic peoples ofbritain. And they've joined with the irish, the men of dublin, so presumably the norse vikings from dublin who had settled in york. So this was leading up to a great battle, the angloSaxons versus everyone else.
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