The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Volume 4, The Medieval World.

Episode 27 The Normans. Oh, you know, it's all.

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uh... Oh, Whenever we are looking for stories of the early Middle Ages we have to scrap around

for contemporary written sources so much so that the sources themselves have achieved the fame of their own.

For example, if we want to know about the earliest years of the Frankish kingdom. Then we rely heavily on the information

provided by the sixth century Gallo-Roman Bishop Gregory of Tur. If we want to find out about the Proto Viking Age of Scandinavia, then we may refer to the Old English epic poem, Beowulf.

Therefore it can become quite exciting when historians believe that they have joined the dots and found that both sources may have referenced the same thing which can validate the veracity of one or the other.

Often with the more poetic works we have to be careful to decipher truth from fantasy. Those who attempt to translate such works

may disagree about the specific content contained within,

with another person who has also translated it.

Bea Wolf introduces us to a man called Hegalak,

who is described to us as the King of the Geats.

The Geats are a peoples who originated from the lands of the modern country of Sweden in Scandinavia.

Hegalac is described as raiding the lands of Frisia, which would have brought

him into close proximity to the Frankish kingdom. It was while raiding Frisia, the coastal

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