Episode 59: Let’s Make A Deal

The History of English Podcast

Kevin Stroud

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The decline of the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age occurred in the late 900s as the English kingdom passed from King Edgar to his son, Aethelred the Unready. it was a period surrounded by many deals, contracts, bargains and treaties. We examine … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English
0:13.4	language.
0:15.0	This is Episode 59, Let's Make a Deal.
0:18.8	In this episode, we're going to look at the decline of the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age.
0:24.2	We'll move the story forward into the 11th century, and we'll explore how everything started
0:29.1	to go wrong for the young English Kingdom.
0:32.6	During this period, a lot of deals were made, and some of those deals were broken.
0:37.5	So one of the underlying themes of this episode is deal-making, and that means we're also going
0:43.1	to explore the etymology of deal-making terms.
0:47.4	But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com,
0:53.6	and you can always reach me directly at kevinathistoryofenglishpodcast.com.
0:59.0	And a big thanks to those of you who've made donations to the podcast.
1:02.8	As always, I appreciate the support and generosity.
1:07.2	Also I want to begin this episode with a little bit of breaking news, and there doesn't
1:11.7	tend to be a lot of breaking news in the history of English, but a recent study of ancient
1:17.2	DNA in Europe has revealed some fascinating results.
1:21.6	A lot of you are kind enough to send me links to several articles about the study, so
1:25.6	I thought I would mention it here as well.
1:28.3	The research concerns the origin and migration of the first Indo-Europeans.
1:33.2	You might recall that I mentioned in earlier episodes that there were basically two theories
1:37.2	about the home of the original Indo-Europeans.
1:41.6	One theory is that they originated in modern-day Turkey, south of the Black Sea, about 8 or
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