Okay, welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie, and this is episode 142, Oswil and Oswim.

There's no Anglo-Sex and word for take backsees.

So, when we left off, Chen Wall of Wessex had left his wife, and irritated Penda, since

his wife was Penda's sister, and he gained a fancy new wife.

That lost his kingdom when Penda arrived to have a little chat with him.

So he did what many nobles at the time seemed to like to do.

He fled into exile.

In the case of Chen Wall, and presumably his wife, he legged it to the kingdom of East

Anglia, and to the court of King Anna.

Now you might remember what King Penda had done earlier to East Anglia.

You got into a scuffle with King Egrich, and it was bad enough that they brought old

King's cigarette out of retirement to fight in the field.

And in the end, Egrich and cigarette both lay dead.

And as a consequence, East Anglia had a new king, and that king was King Anna, and

he can't help but wonder what the hell King Anna was thinking by granting sanctuary

to Chen Wall of Wessex.

Penda had already killed two of his predecessors, and those weren't the only kings he killed

in Britain.

And now he was chasing the very man that Anna welcomed into his court.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe he thought that because he was the father-in-law

to the King of Kent, Erichembert, that maybe through his Kentish and possible Frankish

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