19 - Armagh

Viking Age Podcast

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode we explore the circumstances around the plundering of the great monastery of Armagh by Vikingar in 832 CE. In that year the monastery, which lies 30 miles from the coast, subjected to Viking raids three times in a single month. Things are clearly getting crazy in Ireland.

Along the way we will explore the history of Armagh, we will bring ourselves up to speed on the native Irish political situation, and cover some of the more minor Viking raids and battles which took place in Ireland between 826 and 832. I hope you enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Viking Age podcast. My name is Lee and this is episode 19, ARMA.
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0:56.6	or just stick around till the end of this episode.
1:00.6	Speaking of the end of the episode, I have been lucky enough to get a chance to do a little
1:06.2	bit of planning over the past week or so, and I wanted to take a chance to share this with some of you. So if you're
1:13.9	curious about where the podcast is going, both in the short and medium term, I'm going to be
1:19.9	walking you through the plan at the end of this episode. And if that sounds like something you'd be
1:25.5	interested in, please stick around.
1:29.7	All right, so I hope you are well recovered from our marathon of the last episode.
1:35.6	In it, we thoroughly explored the benefits both tangible and intangible,
1:41.1	which were available to those who decided to leave Western Norway and go a Viking
1:45.9	around 800 CE. To put it very simply, those who went abroad stood to gain local fame and
1:54.0	moderate fortunes, both of which could then be leveraged into better marriage prospects,
1:59.8	higher quality land holdings, and greater
2:02.2	local status than those raiders could have expected if they'd just stayed home. All of which,
2:09.1	at the end of the day, made hopping on a long ship for a journey into the unknown, a pretty
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