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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

29. King Alfred the Great versus the Viking, The Alfred Jewel

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week Neil takes us back in time to meet a king who stopped the Vikings in their tracks.


Sitting in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford is a precious golden artefact called the Alfred Jewel, which is over a thousand years old and inscribed with the words, ‘Alfred ordered me made’. This jeweller’s masterpiece tells us so much about the man who commissioned it – King Alfred the Great - a ruler whose actions had a profound effect on shaping the British Isles


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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over. When I think about what might be trapped between the rock crystal and the closonian

0:32.0

animal I think the past might physically be there

0:36.7

in the form of a single molecule.

0:41.1

In this podcast we're traveling back in time with a precious golden

0:49.0

artifact a beautiful jewel inscribed with the words,

0:54.0

A king made me.

0:57.0

The king who earned the epithet great.

1:02.0

A brave soldier who led the final resistance against the Viking Mikkelheh and Hehrer.

1:08.0

Over a thousand years old, this priceless work of art gives us a window into his time,

1:17.0

illuminating a ruler with a reputation for learning, good governance and graciousness lost and found by chance. This jeweller's

1:28.6

masterpiece tells us so much about a man who had a profound effect on shaping the British Isles.

1:37.0

I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world.

1:46.0

I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. Hi Neil. In the last episode you took us to the capital of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom

2:11.0

of Mercier, which had just been conquered by the Vikings great heathen army.

2:15.9

Where are we now?

2:17.7

It's not a place that we're going to this week, Paul.

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