217 – Halfdan’s Ravaging of the North
The British History Podcast
Jamie Jeffers
4.6 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We begin our story in Alt Clut. Alt Clut was an ancient British Kingdom and it could trace itself back to Roman Britannia – and possibly even further. At the center of this kingdom was an old fortress on a River, the River Clyde. The Kingdom’s name derived from the Brythonic name for the rock […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the British History Podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | My name is Jamie and this is episode 217, Half Dan's Ravaging of the North. |
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| 0:27.7 | at theBritishHistoryPodcast.com. |
| 0:30.4 | And thank you very much to Robert, Jennifer, and Matt for signing up already. |
| 0:35.2 | Also, while it's likely that she's not going to listen to this episode because she |
| 0:38.7 | hears my voice too much already as it is, it's co-producer Z's birthday. |
| 0:43.7 | Happy birthday Z! |
| 0:45.7 | Okay, we begin our story in Alt-Cloot. |
| 0:50.4 | Alt-Cloot was an ancient British kingdom and it could stretch itself back into Roman |
| 0:54.7 | Britannia and possibly even further. |
| 0:58.3 | At the center of this kingdom was an old fortress on the River Clyde. |
| 1:03.5 | The kingdom's name derived from the Brithonic name for the rock featured by this fortress. |
| 1:09.7 | Alt-Cloot, the rock of the Clyde. |
| 1:13.4 | This rock feature on the River Clyde probably defined the area for many of its people and |
| 1:18.8 | over time it likely came to define the people themselves. |
| 1:23.0 | We've actually discussed the kingdom of Alt-Cloot in the past, though you might not remember |
| 1:27.4 | it. |
| 1:28.4 | We've talked about their conflicts with Dalriata, Pickland, and Northumbria. |
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