Churchill wrote about this era he published something called a history of the English speaking peoples. He covered Alfred the Great in it and so I thought well I wonder if Winston Churchill's portrayal of Alfred the Great is churchillion turns out it is, says historian will Durant. In his classic 1950s work the age of faith historian will Durant gives his life the quick rundown when he describes him as illiterate or Latin-less.
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.