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What language is that?

Powerful words, read a bit of accounts from the time. Violent times. For interest in terror in old warfare, I recommend Laughing Shall I Die as well as Samurai Death Cult Will get Mongol Storm, want more understanding of further East, excellent work

Amazing, thank you for sharing this literary gem of Medieval Europe here!

No sound??

Thank you.

Brilliant. Thank you.

A lot of interesting information. It is a pity that it is at times difficult to understand the words spoken.

Holy Moses! Michelle Brown is a tour de force. Bless you, "Ms. 5 Minute Medievalist", for having the grace to let her guest share so much of that knowledge. Amazing.

The politics in that first sentence cannot be ignored. All those individuals entities, and one of the classes of independent entities is "towns".

Necromancer and goblins' castle! How very Sauron!

Another very interesting and entertaining video on Alfred, I look forward to the next.

I play tabletop RPGs. This is such wonderful information. It's really useful in the world building threading depth and flavor.

It's a shame that so many have gone down a rabbit hole with the various versions of the poetic translation. The entry in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles is written in a northern English dialect which is still spoken today. AD dccc.xxxvii her aethelstan cyning - eorla ðryhten - beorna beahgifa - ⁊ his broðer eac - eadmund aethling - elderlangne tir - geslogon aet - saecce sƿearda ecgum - ymbe brunanburh - AD 937 Here Athelstan signing - all of th[e] writing - born a begiver - and his bother is - Eadmund Athling - elder long not to you - goes looking at - says sweared he come - he's at brunanburh - Line six in the ASC states: - heowan heaþolinde - [here won heatherland] in Egils saga the place is called Vínheiðar. Vin is the colour, as in vin rouge and heiðar is the word heather. When the heather is in flower the colour of the flower is Vin. Brun is brown, the colour of the heather when not in flower. In the late 1500's the area called Brunanburh was still known as Æthelstan Moor.

There are better Alfreds out there.

No, he was neither Great, nor King, nor an Alfred.

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What an amazing and knowledgeable speaker! This was fascinating, I could have listened to her for hours. Thank you so much

Three books that could be mentioned are: 1. Baudolino by Umberto Eco 2. Σκούφος από πορφύρα Μάρω Δούκα 3. Περί της εαυτού Ψυχής Ισιδωρος Ζουργός

I wanted to love this podcast. I was looking forward to film-related history, not film critique. I definitely think there's room for the hosts' personal preferences about the movie, and I expected talk about its inaccuracies, but this conversation felt like a lot of mocking of the script and raucous laughter. If you're open to suggestions, give a listen to Heather Teysko in her new podcast, "Watching The Tudors," in which she discusses episodes of the 2008 TV series about Henry VIII. Like "Braveheart," "The Tudors" was much more about entertainment than historical accuracy, but Heather reviews it in a constructive, fun way. Thanks for trying, though. I usually like Medievalists content... I'm sorry this wasn't my cup of tea.

I enjoy the idea that ghengis heard that in the civilized lands leaders claimed a divine right to rule and he responded "Okay...well,... Me too." And then they knew they were in real trouble

Thank you so much , that was so interesting. Just wonderful to hear that lady talk. I could,have listened for ages. Thank you once again. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

the venerable Bede, will be most grateful, that his name & works of literature are still being honoured & discussed in the 21 century, folks 😁

Thank you so much. This was a wonderful use of 3/4 of an hour. If there's a chance for a future interview, that would be lovely.

i wonder if we know if this was written before the writings of crestien de troyes or maybe during his period of writing. she mentions yvain, i wonder if it was she or crestien who invented that character. the name lanval also seems very reminiscent of lancelot and perceval, i wonder if this name was the precursor to these. old french literature has such a mystical and magical effect to me that i was suddenly reminded of with your great soft reading! i also love to think of these stories as a continuation of celtic storytelling, with the maidens clearly being alike to fairies, and lanval and they ending up going to avalon which is essentially just a celtic otherwold. anyway, love your content, keep up the great work!

As American's, you may be fine with Kevin Costner's keeping his US accent. Being British, the excess of US accents was off-putting. Get an actor that can at least do a better British accent that Dick Van Dyke. Costner was miscast. Remove the Robin Hood labelling, and Prince of Thieves, would have been a fine fantasy. As is, its Hollywood corrupting and mangling European history and myths again.. I have the same problem with Sean Connery in many films. Whether as an Egyptian/Spaniard or a Lithuanian (Highlander and Hunt for Red October). As for the Russell Crowe film. For someone not familiar with any of the Robin Hood stories. They would have been hard pushed to recognise the film much of a connection to Robin Hood. Hollywood should hue more to extant history and "lore". As so many people only learn "history" from films. Robin of Sherwood was my era of Robin. Excellent series. The UK also has a "New Adventures of" in 2006. Its was bad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(2006_TV_series) . The same sort or mangling that "Merlin" went through en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(2008_TV_series).

And they all had the same dna

A mixture of real things and inventions Greeks wrote about scandinavians

Everybody know about the slave trade of the vikings They tried to hide it

They went to africa All the slaves

Like the bible The sagas an invention

Tory was a slave company

Vikings were chasing people Like some africans

Nothing to do with romans They took some people they conquered

Paradox videogames mentioned rahhhhhhhhh

In regards to the sagas as a sort of source, I've been reading Tom Shippey's 'Laughing Shall I Die'. I am no expert, but he has very compelling points on the merits of the sagas and continually draws attention to their problems and varying versions. I would certainly recommend the book and I will continue to sing my praises for you guys. My thanks!

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It might be an insult but the She-Wolf of France is a badass nickname

Interesting, thank you

2:56 I remember this quote from my history professor (in Canada 2017 or 2018) regarding Byzantium “Nothing of consequence for history ever really happened there. They weren’t developing science or reason or philosophy. They were spending all their time lounging around debating the number of wings on angels, or how many ranks of angels there were.”

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Thank you ladies, so interesting. We tend to think seasons and holidays just always ‘were’. Fascinating. 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

Sophia Myles was perfect as Lady Penelope in the terrible live action Thunderbirds firm around the same time as this film. James Franco was really miscast in this film.

such a good film

A Latin Roman would never have made Greek the primary language of the Roman empire. Even the picture in the video shows Greek language.

Speaking as a Greek, when the liars that ridiculously recognized the former Yugoslavians as "ethnic" Macedonians bother to notice their quick change into ancient Macedonians and irredentism, maybe Greeks will start to take their lectures on history seriously. Those who lie about Greek events in their own lifetime have no credibility as historians. Patronizing bigots.

If one wants to know the DNA relationship to past population one consults population geneticists that have done DNA analysis between ancient and modern. One does not consult racist crackpots in the humanities peddling ad-hoc analogies and pet definitions as "scientific".

This video uses unprincipled standards;. Before the adoption of the term "Byzantine" the Western Holy Roman empire. for nearly 1000 years, insisted they were the "Real" Roman empire and that the other one was Greeks. Now you revise history to claim the west was not Roman and the eastern one was not Greek? Racist bullsh-t posing as scholarly debate.

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I would be delighted with two or three more episodes on this part of history. Your presentation was easy to listen to, informative and fun. Thank you.

70s version is a lot better