The Last Kingdom
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Thanks for the tip! I know what to watch next now! :)
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Cp-Coder wrote:
Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Most modern historians do not believe it was an invasion, per se, but rather a surge of armed settlers spread over considerable time, who were eventually assimilated into the resident population.
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
There is a mini-series on BB radio 4 (by Ian Hislop) that talks about this period BBC Sounds - This Union: The Ghost Kingdoms of England[^]. Easy to listen to and engaging. (I'm not sure how much of BBC content is available if you're not in the UK, but give it a go.) Adam
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Cp-Coder wrote:
Did the German Saxons really invade England?
No. As far as I know, they came as hired goons and were loyal to the death. As long as the guys who hired them kept their end of the bargain. If not, no matter why, things very quickly got violent.
Cp-Coder wrote:
Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest?
Yep. And they would not have been satisfied with that if things had gone according to their plans. "If we had not won the war, we would all be speaking German now." Far too late. That already happened more than a thousand years ago.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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There is a mini-series on BB radio 4 (by Ian Hislop) that talks about this period BBC Sounds - This Union: The Ghost Kingdoms of England[^]. Easy to listen to and engaging. (I'm not sure how much of BBC content is available if you're not in the UK, but give it a go.) Adam
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Ha.. I understand why Wessex is the last part of the map in Valhalla now! :D
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I have always been interested in history - all history - be it the Chinese dynasties or European histories. Recently my eldest daughter decided we need to watch "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix. But we did not have a Netflix account. So she bought us a year's subscription on the understanding that we will watch "The Last Kingdom". What a great show! We just finished season 1 and now we know about Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex. And we know where Wessex was. We know about the battles against the Danes (Vikings). Something I am still curious about is the Saxon invasion of England. Did the German Saxons really invade England? Did they drive the Welsh into Wales as the patriotic songs from lower Saxony in Germany seem to suggest? I wonder!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
OMG! This show makes me wants to play Assassin Creed Valhalla once again! :O
A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!