127 – The Synod of Whitby
The British History Podcast
Jamie Jeffers
4.6 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The major players for today will be Hild (who was the daughter of King Edwin’s nephew, Hereric), King Oswiu of Bernicia, Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne, Wilfred the abbot of Ripon, and Bishop Cedd. And they will be, ostensibly, arguing over Easter. See? Once again, we’ve got Easter causing trouble in Britain. Cadburys chocolate can’t come […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the British History Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | My name is Jamie. |
| 0:08.9 | And this is episode 151, The Synod of Whitby. |
| 0:13.8 | Alright, to start with, I have some updates from last episode. |
| 0:18.2 | And let's start with the bad stuff. |
| 0:20.3 | So in keeping with tradition, I mispronounce some things in the last episode. |
| 0:25.3 | A particular importance for this episode is that I apparently mispronounce Synod. |
| 0:30.3 | Even though it's totally spelled Sinod. |
| 0:33.2 | And the fun thing about English is that no matter how many times you read something on a piece of paper, |
| 0:37.8 | it usually doesn't tell you at all how to pronounce it. |
| 0:41.8 | No English, why do you troll us so? |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, the second update is Way Cooler, and it's regarding Eclipse's. |
| 0:49.8 | Do you remember how I asked for people to write in if they could work out the astrophysics for |
| 0:53.6 | the seventh century orbits? |
| 0:55.5 | Well, funny story. |
| 0:57.3 | It turns out that quite a few of you left at the chance to do some research. |
| 1:01.2 | And I'll read to you the first response that I got on the matter, which was from listener |
| 1:05.0 | Stephen. |
| 1:06.0 | He writes, quote, |
| 1:07.5 | From Medhamstead slash Peter Burrah, the Eclipse is partial, although a very deep one. |
| 1:13.3 | The partial Eclipse begins at 417 pm, maximum Eclipse at 520 pm, with 97% of the sun obscured. |
| 1:22.1 | The partial Eclipse ends at 618 pm. |
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