Welcome to the History of English Podcast, a podcast about the history of the English language.

This is episode 77, rival relatives and the land of Scots.

In this episode, we're going to continue to look at developments following the death of

Henry I.

Three intended for his daughter Matilda to succeed him, but that didn't happen.

Instead, the story of Britain shifted to several of her relatives.

Her cousin Stephen quickly seized the throne.

But Matilda found support from her uncle David in Scotland, who happened to be the King of Scotland.

So this time we'll look at those political developments.

And along the way we'll look at the emergence of a unique offshoot of Old English called Scots.

So we'll look at that first variety of English spoken outside of England.

But before we begin, let me remind you that the website for the podcast is historyofenglishpodcast.com.

And you can always reach me directly by email at Kevin at historyofenglishpodcast.com.

And I'm on Twitter at EnglishHistPod.

At last time, I mentioned that I recently established a supporters page at patreon.com.

And first of all, let me thank those of you who've pledged to support the podcast there.

I didn't really go into detail about the Patreon page last time, but let me mention a couple

of things about it this time before we begin.

First of all, the way Patreon works is that the artist or podcaster in this case sets a specific goal

and asks supporters to pledge a monthly amount.

The pledge is charged monthly, so be aware of that, but you're free to change or stop the

pledge at any time.

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