S2.9 Malcolm I

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🗓️ 3 July 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Malcolm has to wait a long time to become king and when Constantine II finally abdicates in 943, there's a lot going on. The death of the Saxon king Athelstan has left a power vacuum in Northumbria and Malcolm is very much at the centre of events, making new alliances and facing off against the legendary Viking Erik the Bloodaxe. Will Malcolm come out on top or will the Vikings once again prove the undoing of a Scottish king? If you find yourself losing track of who is who and where is where, have a look at our handy glossary for the episode: https://rexfactor.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/malcolm-i-podcast-glossary/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:14.0	This week, Malcolm the Fast!
0:30.0	With your hosts Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello! Hello!
0:31.0	Hello!
0:32.0	And welcome to Rex Factor reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from
0:35.2	Kenneth Mcaupin to James the sixth.
0:37.8	Still sounds a bit weird to me I'm so used to saying of England and we're up to
0:41.6	this week? Well we are up to which will definitely please
0:44.6	you Malcolm the first fabulous I mean what a name that's proper solid Scottish
0:49.9	name wonderful now a quick bit of backgroundy stuff just to bring us up to speed with where we were in case you maybe haven't been listening or connected for the last few months.
0:59.0	We had the beginning still of Scotland so when we started Scotland wasn't really there as an
1:04.6	actual country yeah it was lots of different kingdoms in the land that we now know
1:08.4	is Scotland so we've got the PICs the Saxons the Britons and the Scots Britons and the Scots.
1:13.0	And the Scots and Kenneth from Calpin gradually come to the fall in the 840s, 850s.
1:18.0	And we still got, they've still got plenty of enemies.
1:20.0	So they've still got plenty of enemies, particularly the Vikings.
1:23.0	In the 8-60s and 70s and the reign of Constantine the first, caused a lot of instability.
1:28.0	Yeah.
1:29.0	Not least by killing Constantine the first.
1:31.0	They are jolly good at that.
1:32.0	We aren't thinking good that, yeah.
1:34.0	This weakens the state, so we have internal divisions, so Iath, hashtag.
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