244 – Haesten’s Advance
The British History Podcast
Jamie Jeffers
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🗓️ 31 May 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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“Then came the king’s troops, and routed the enemy, broke down the work, took all that was therein money, women, and children and brought all to London. And all the ships they either broke to pieces, or burned, or brought to London or to Rochester.” That’s what the Chronicle has to say about AEthelred’s siege […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the British History Podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | My name is Jamie and this is Episode 244, Pastin's Advance. |
| 0:13.2 | This show is ad-free due to member support, and as a way of thanking members for keeping |
| 0:17.5 | the show independent, I offer members only content, including extra episodes and rough transcripts. |
| 0:23.7 | This week on the member's feed, we dig into some more of the last kingdom, which we still |
| 0:28.4 | do love, even though now they're pretty clearly getting some stuff wrong. |
| 0:33.8 | Here's a clip. |
| 0:35.0 | The filing of the teeth and the dying, that is a practice that we've seen. |
| 0:38.5 | Yes, we found their teeth and it looks like that stuff that they did. |
| 0:42.4 | He's described as a sword dain and a lord of war, and I've been trying to figure out, |
| 0:48.7 | because I haven't seen any reference to something called a sword dain. |
| 0:52.2 | I think that's Bernard Cornwall making something up. |
| 0:55.0 | My guess is that it is a reference to the fact that if you owned a sword because swords |
| 1:01.4 | are so hard to get your hands on and so expensive that that is a major mark of wealth and power, |
| 1:09.3 | the problem is that the prop guy has given anyone who can stand upright a sword in this |
| 1:14.5 | TV show. |
| 1:15.5 | So they want to elevate swords and yet they've already made them kind of cheap. |
| 1:19.1 | What they showed us is giving everybody but Utred a few people and this guy acts as |
| 1:24.3 | in spears. |
| 1:25.3 | Even how Utre gets a sword is this bizarre story where it's made in like a day, like it's |
| 1:28.8 | no big thing. |
| 1:29.8 | No, no. |
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