How was England formed 

I really like that you've branched out to doing videos like this.i very much enjoy them

i like these history videos you've been doing

The first attack of Vikings on Anglo-saxons started with Lindisfarne, in Northumbria

The original Britons were Celtic trubes/Clans, which we still have some of today and their languages.

I have a love/hate relationship with the original video. On one hand, it does a good job in breaking down and explaining the very basics. Yet on the other, it glosses over or straight up ignores some info that I believe is somewhat important. Granted, it doesn’t need to explain everything (that’s not what the video is about) but it doesn’t explain the link/relationships between certain individuals and therefore comes across like everyone are complete strangers or enemies coming together to fight a common cause (which I guess in some case they were). So I thought I’d list some things that was glossed over/ignored which I believe should have been developed and explained more even in this breakdown video: - the dude Alfred made the Lord of Mercia, Æthelred, is the husband of Alfred’s daughter, Æthelflæd (the same woman who became the “Lord” straight after Æthelred). She was the full sister of Edward, who took over Wessex when his father, Alfred died. The reason Æthelred was called the “Lord of Mercia” and not king was because, Mercia was ruled by the kingdom of Wessex/Alfred. It was still able to command its own army and laws, but if things went down and Wessex was in danger, Mercia would fight along side Wessex. - Æthelflæd didn’t just get put on the throne because her husband was the Lord and died, there was a lot of opposition but if I’m not mistaken, historians believe she was accepted simply because of her being the daughter of Alfred the Great and sister of the King of Wessex who had power over Mercia. When she died, I think her daughter was young and obviously had no idea how to stop a Viking invasion and that’s why the Mercian people ousted Ælfwynn. Although this didn’t straight up “create the perfect opportunity for Edward to seized all of Mercia” as he was technically the ruler anyway, it did allow Edward to have complete autonomy over the land and therefore could control the army better. - I think it’s also somewhat important to know, that London wasn’t the powerhouse of a city that it is today. It was a Mercian town/city but it was only a port - important yes, but not as important as it would soon become. Instead, the two most important cities an invader could occupy during this time was either Winchester (the capital of Wessex, south of England and soon England as a whole up until 1066) or York, which was the capital of Northumbria and Danelaw.

'Briton' refers to the Celtic natives of Britain during and immediately after Roman times. Their languages survive in Welsh, Cornish and Breton

Yes it was Briton rather than Britain

You know your British history much better then the majority of British people - even some who are quite well infomed in history. Nice work.

The series Vikings, depicts the Norsemen fighting the Anglo-Saxons who had seven kingdoms in present day England and conquered the Britons, the original inhabitants

Angleland or England later

Funny how he drew the arrow from Norway instead of Denmark but at least he got it right that it were Danes attacking

They did speak English. Old English

MATE you don't realise but ur now famous in the uk , their was a newspaper article and Facebook feed video about you , The story says ur from Chicago but now live in Florida but you identify as British.

If you watch the series, "The Vikings" it adds a whole extra perspective to understanding English history... It wasn't fully accurate, chronologically, but the interplay and influence both cultures had on each other was fascinating to me. Could be a great series for doing reactions to, now that I think about it. Somewhat similar to Game of Thrones, but with some actual historical figures...

However, England was taken over completely by the Viking, King Canute (Cnut).

It was a holy place, that's why it was 'disrespected'.

The movie "The Last Kingdom" was dope on this..

Murcia is an Arabic name, meaning "port", as Marseille in France, Mersin in Turkey and probably other cities in Mediterranean, which are ports and established or conquered then named by Arabs.

Aethelflead & Edward aka Edward the Elder were 2 of Alfred aka Alfred the Great's children. Aethelflead married Aethelred of Mercia & after his death in 911, Aethelflead became Queen of Mercia & Edward was King of Wessex after his father died in 899. Alfwynn was Queen for a short while like 6 - 18 months after Aethelflead died in 918 until Edward took the throne because Aelfwynn was deposed. The show The Last Kingdom is based on Alfred & his family though only 2 of his children appear in it & it is the most historically accurate then the sequel movie Seven Kings Must Die is historically based on how England was formed. The narrarator is mispronouncing the old name for Scotland which is Alba not Alaba.

The descendants of the original Britons are the Welsh, Cornish and the Breton peoples

Murcia does not belong to Andalucia, it is next to Andalucia, but is an entirely different autonomous community.

Yes! Kings English is bizarre

By GOD.

Funny thing is, the saxon king of england called himself Britenwalda (Ruler of britannia) Originally the title was Brytenwalder (ruler of much). But after 200 years their dialects had changed so much that they thought bryten was britain.

Lazy, pretending to be history and it literally just falls strraight into the Heptarchy paradigm. Far more than 7 seven kingdoms were formed. Bede just mentioned these 7 as the most important

Really poor video choice the story of England is way more complicated than this video portrays this really only covers the Anglo Saxon bit find a better video 👍🏻🇬🇧

The irony of Brexit and its xenophobic basis being mostly an English initiative is astounding, considering how Angles were not indigenous to those isles in the first place. It's like people of the US telling Mexicans to get out of Texas or California, and go back to Mexico...

He totally ignored William the Conqueror who was a Viking from heritage who came from France and changed the whole country, all the way down to the language.