AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Anglo Saxon England - A History of Kingship
When ethelred died in ten 16, the leading powers in england opted to switch dynasties. The councils and ruling bodies around the various pro ces around britain basically agreed in declaring the danish ruler knut as king of england. This was the first time that instead of trying to contend over the exact boundaries of danish versus anglo saxon control, instead there was a kind of unanimity around one ruler who was norse,. not anglosax.