Alfred the Great - Saviour of the Saxons Documentary 

I've learned alot watching The shepherds chapel,E.Raymond Camp on Lost tribes of Israel found, kentucky stones.Ive seen some things in sky last couple years noone would believe me.Learned I have Anglo saxan in my family couple years ago.Found out by googling my grandfather and his father.Glad I've studied God's word in King James Bible with a Strongs concordance bible dictionary in Greek and Hebrew.💪😇🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Richard Rogers, that's awesome, I to have learned a lot from Shepherds Chapel, since 95, keep up the awesome work I'll try and do the same, though I get the feeling ur way ahead of me, GOD be with you

Oh one thing, my name is Troy Yarnell, this thing comes up under my girl friends name, dunno why yet

Charlamagne was NOT the first holy roman emporer that was OTTO the great

That Toad doesn't deserve to be spoken of alongside Alfred.

@@MalleusIudaeorum Insanely based. England lives, and marches on!

@Gigachad Longshanks Malleus Scotorum et Iudaeorum his era spanned the 1880s to the 1960s. There are far better examples of all kinds of leadership in that era. After all it spans our military and cultural height, our greatest challenges and our eventual stagnation and decline

Alfred was not British

Churchill wasn’t close to great

This series is one of Netflix’s best shows

Going to check it out now, thanks!

@@roberts1572 it's great. It's grittier, more historical and on a smaller scale than GoT which is why I enjoy it. I can't wait for the new season. Hopefully it comes out soon.

Definitely a BRILLIANT series

What do you think of Aethelflaed's development in season 4? She seems a bit colder and more calculating.

Alfred the Great is my favourite king too - along with King Harold Godwinson (the last Anglo-Saxon English king, born 1022 - 1066). Sadly, we only have a small number of commemorative monuments of Alfred the Great scattered about England. And as well sculpted as they may be, they should be displayed in a more prominent environment such as Parliament Square. However, I am delighted to learn there is a university in the USA (established in New York, 1836) named in honour of Alfred the Great, including a statue and base which reads: King of the Saxons.

well your surname is Welsh, so your ancestors would have had frequent contact with the English 😁

It's what happens with countries which have a history longer than 250 years 😁 it gets interesting.

@@gabsie7224 lol!

I love my countries history, but all I can think is thank god I wasn't alive in them times, imagine just standing in a field then one minute 1000+ rampaging lunatic Viking invaders are running at you with swords and axes........

Not forgotten

God BLESS the house of wessex

More so downplayed in favor of post Norman kings. But there are many references and historical sights related to Alfred and the house of Wessex in England.

Alfred is in every true Englishman's heart.

@@eardwulf785 greetings from the old home of the westsaxons.....Westfalia in northwest Germany.....we are one tribe.....and one family ....english and north west germans...

I am german from saxon ancestry westfalia.....I've been in Shaftesbury in the Abbey remains there is a monument of our Saxon King Alfred....may England preserve....what is called the old England....against all woke dictatorship

I'm an American with heavy roots in England. Please reclaim your country. Were trying over here

they changed the colleague

I find British history so impressive and I am obsessed with British history and literature. I am from the English speaking Caribbean and part of our school curriculum includes British history.

Early British history also inspired the works of Tolkien, which shows how indeed fascinating it really was

You're not even of British descent

@@matthew-dq8vklol, actually i am. but still, how is a person's heritage relevant to their enjoyment of English history?

Great Writers playing King Author

​@@matthew-dq8vk I'm Greek and i love reading about Welsh Irish and English history so?

​@@zwhsantwnopoylos5972yeah I have no idea why that guy even said that??? I'm assuming it's a male because women don't troll anyone like that if it was trolling.. but even so, what is the reasoning behind that remark and why would it matter where he is from to learn anything about any history? Lol thats just like saying "oh you like pizza? You're not even a pizza, so why would you eat pizza", the whole 'you are what you eat' metaphor literally lol.. makes no sense

You should take back the crown that rightly belongs to your family.

33 generations lol we are all probably related to him that far back

London wouldn’t look like the Middle East if he was still Alive that’s for sure

Vivat Rex Alfredum

@silverreich That's even worse.

@@Roman-oh7xc racist

@@thesilverreich3947 No it's not: London is about less than half native British (English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and the like), and the second largest group are non-British Europeans. Blacks are a sizeable portion as are South Asians, but they are only majorities in certain boroughs.

​ @Runaway Puppet I was baptised in a church dedicated to Saint and King Oswald

Boru would be very interesting indeed.

@@AndyMcSherry1 I'd even pay them for it honestly. Irish history docs seem to only focus on 1900s. Rest are old and outdated information

@@JollyPirateAhoy There is a good one on Robert the Bruce's brother becoming high-king of Ireland but you are right, much of the material is in the modern day.

I've replied to another comment by suggesting that Psalm 72 in Jewish Torah and Christian Old Testament pretty much describes Alfred. He seems to have combined the best of David and Solomon without having their massive flaws, a sort of ideal Christian king

A Great King

Yes. I am really enjoying seeing him portrayed so well in the series on netflix "The Last Kingdom" ... I highly recommend it to all

@@octoberfire13 Thank you. I thought I was out of good stuff to watch on Netflix

@@kingstonnine2393 it is SOOOO GOOD!!! Enjoy!!

Awesome, thank you!

We're based in the Kingdom of Essex!

Fully agree!!

Hundreds of hours.

He would disagree. His primary goal was a just and literate and coherent society of the sort envisaged by Psalm 72, in the Jewish Torah and Christian Old Testament, which begins with the line "Give or impart to the king, your justice... that he may judge your people with righteousness... to defend the cause of the needy and the poor and to break the oppressor of the poor". The goal is shalom - it means much more than peace as the absence of conflict - more like prosperity as the result of wide ranging justice and honesty dealing. I'm finding those texts and other ancient near east documents and history, eg the late bronze collapse, fascinating. Alfred would have believed in the Bible texts as coming from God and did his own translation work from Latin versions into English. The warrior aspect was an undesirable but necessary means to that end by eliminating threats to it - rather like David in said ancient literature. Beowulf, based in the East Anglian Fens, is an interesting take on this - a hero eliminates the monster but the hero is not the right figure for ongoing social order. There were many illiterate warrior kings of that era and many subsequent ages who did plenty of damage and bankrupted their nations while pursuing their goals. The wealth of the nation mentioned in the video is the result of just kingship in Psalm 72:10,15. At least, that's how he would have seen it. Alfred was great precisely because he was so much more than a warrior and subjugated his competence as warrior to his greater goals.

We do know the base story of saint george and that was he was greek and syrian raised by christian parents and would join the roman legions at 18 before becoming a member of the praetorian guard and then being tortured and killed by emperor diocletian for refusing to make sacrifices to the roman gods

I’m not too sure exactly but arent people made saints specifically for martyrdom

@@emmanuelhernandez396 sometimes

Glad to hear it!

He's better than all the ones after him because he's actually English and not French or German.

Definitely one of the most incredible kings to have ever lived.

😂😂 ut heritage is no one british trash

Uhtred brought you here ,so that’s good

Michael York played Guthrum.

The Last Kingdom is an enjoyable fictional take. Again available on Netflix.

Well, you forsook the Empire, your brethren, so why not forsake the Histories aswell.

@@corneliuscapitalinus845 oh don't be daft.

Dan Jones has done some stellar work on the Plantagenets (books and tv) and there are some vids of his on RU-vid worth a watch (Britain’s Bloody Crown for example)

Hail the Saxons.

If only the world could move on from religion.

They have, and you can see the result.

Best wishes and kind regards from Slovenia. Some fantastic history here as well. Les Paul would be my choice for a future documentary by the way. Leo Fender as well. Keep on rockin'

Why do people keep saying this? Cnut the great reigned for nearly two decades.

@@nobleglassgallery he was king of Norway which yes had England but he wasn't an English king. plus only the Norwegians call him great.

@@taxfraud5673 I disagree, he was as much king of England as William the conqueror. Alfred deserves to be known as the great; but from a non-Norwegian, Cnut certainly does too.

@@taxfraud5673 not true my dude, Cnut built a massive empire, stabilized England after decades of political turmoil, and was arguably the first english king to be a major power in Europe- definitely a 'great' by anyone's metric. Also, despite being Danish, he was a king of England first, only ascending the Danish crown several years later, and the Norwegian one a few years after that- making him arguably more an English king than a Scandinavian one

@@rowanlau1651 I will say this, Cnut treated the English with a hell of a lot of respect for the time unlike William, this respect and love was reciprocated. The English played a significant role in the expansion of the North Sea empire as well, so it really resembled a union of sorts instead of an empire.

Glad you enjoyed it!

We will indeed.

@@PeopleProfiles sweet! I can't get enough of this time period. Damn shame we don't have more info on Alfred's daughter, one of the most underrated female rulers of all time.

@@PeopleProfiles I will be interested on any documentaries on Alfred's descendants (althelstan, Edward the elder, Edgar, Edmund. etc).

All criminally underrated in my opinion...

Don't forget Aethelfled his daughter and mentor to his grandson Athelstan.

I’m a descendant of him too I just discovered that. I’m African American. I was shocked when I found out

@@babydoll3274 Hahaha, so you and I are distant cousins, due to our common so magnificient ancestor. Great!

Well I like the Danish language

@stev - he was not an Englishman, but a Germanic one (min. 1:22). Becoming an English took many hundreds of years with all that cauldron mix people. You may talk about English people starting around....1400 AD.