The Battle of Clontarf
Gone Medieval
History Hit
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On Gone Medieval we like to celebrate the best stories - and storytellers - of history, so today Dr.Eleanor Janega showcases the brilliant podcast History Daily. Host Lindsay Graham takes listeners back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history and to tell the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.
This episode is all about the events that took place in April 1014: King Brian of Ireland is killed by Vikings during the Battle of Clontarf, leading Ireland to fall into anarchy.
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| 0:00.0 | Everything to play for is taking on its biggest challenge yet. |
| 0:04.7 | We've had two parters, we've even had three parters. |
| 0:07.3 | This is a four-parter and the reason why we're giving it four podcasts is it's probably |
| 0:12.1 | the greatest individual rivalry in Premier League history. |
| 0:15.2 | Yes, Us and Venga versus Alex Ferguson, we've bitten off more than me consumed. |
| 0:19.9 | And what it reminds me of, I saw a video on social media the other day of a Python having swallowed |
| 0:24.9 | a duvet. And the vets were trying to get the duvet out of the Python, I thought that is like |
| 0:30.0 | me and Colin, having to skip over if a find those because there's so much to talk about |
| 0:34.4 | when it comes to Venga and Ferguson. |
| 0:36.0 | Doubles, Trebles, pizza round the face, it has everything. |
| 0:40.5 | If you want to listen to the podcast equivalent of a Python swallowing a duvet |
| 0:44.7 | follow everything to play for on the Wundry app or wherever you get your |
| 0:47.7 | podcasts you can binge seasons early and add free right now on one tree plus. Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanor Yannaga, and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the |
| 1:09.9 | podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history. |
| 1:14.0 | We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gob-spacking details, |
| 1:18.5 | and the latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the Normans, from Kings to popes to the Crusades. |
| 1:25.5 | We delve into the rebellions, plots and murders that tell us who we really were and how we got |
| 1:32.0 | here. Well, hello, this is Dr. Eleanor Yannaga and guess this has gone medieval. |
| 1:40.0 | But today we have something a little bit different for you. We like to celebrate the best stories and storytellers of history. |
| 1:48.0 | So today we're showcasing a brilliant podcast called History Daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham |
| 1:54.8 | takes us back in time to explore a momentous event that happened on this day in |
| 1:59.2 | history and to tell the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world. |
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