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🗓️ 7 September 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, the Battle of Brunnenberg, Part 3 of 3. |
0:25.0 | In the previous podcast, I told the story of the arrival of the Vikings to British shores |
0:30.5 | and the response from King Alfred the Great of Wessex. |
0:35.4 | Alfred not only saved Anglo-Saxon England from annihilation, he organised a very successful |
0:40.7 | rebuilding of Wessex, sitting on the path to become the largest kingdom in Britain. |
0:47.3 | The achievements of his grandson, Atholstan, are no less significant. |
0:52.4 | Today I conclude this set of three podcasts on Anglo-Saxon England |
0:55.9 | by discussing what was known half a century later still as the Great Battle, the Battle of Brunnenberg. |
1:06.9 | By the end of the last podcast, King Alfred and his successor, Edward Dielder, had made Wessex the most powerful kingdom in Britain. |
1:16.7 | At about the same time that the state of England was starting to form around Wessex and Mercia, |
1:22.5 | the other parts of the future Great Britain were likewise taking shape. |
1:27.7 | The last kingdoms are the native Britons, those of Cornwall, Cumbria, Strathclyde, as well as the Picks, |
1:35.4 | were being squeezed out by their larger neighbours. Only mountainous Wales was able to preserve |
1:41.0 | its independence, although its leaders were often compelled to recognise |
1:45.1 | English claims of overlordship. In the centuries after the Romans, Wales experienced a gradual |
1:52.8 | consolidation of power into increasingly larger kingdoms. By the late 9th century, most of the country |
2:00.1 | was united under one king, Rodry the Great, |
2:03.3 | but power fragmented once more when he died. |
2:08.4 | As for Northern Britain, the historical records for this period are exceptionally sparse. |
2:14.5 | The main local source from the period is the chronicle of the kings of Alba. |
2:20.3 | Originally simply a list of kings with rain lengths, some other details were added into one manuscript version in the 10th and 12 centuries. |
2:29.3 | Between the 6th and 9th centuries there existed an important Gallic kingdom named Dalriata, |
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