Even I, a man of Óðinn, recognize the resolve of Edmund in the face of certain death. The boy and the old blind man, sleeping at the king's grave site and being healed is a beautiful story as well.
It saint Edmund Saint of King and Martyr You know Prince Derek called Edmund a Saint of King and Martyr but real name is Derek From the Swan Princess from Animated Stories from New Testament 🇬🇧 ✝️
I love all of Ollies history profiles!! Great job! Actually makes me want to learn more! And he doesn't have an annoying, droning voice like alot of others!! Thanks Ollie 😁
You start to see history from another angle when you remember that all the things the vikings did to the Christians the Christians would do to everyone else just WAY more self righteously
It's my first time watching The Last Kingdom and I love it more than Vikings. Vikings got boring soon after Ragnar died. But The Last Kingdom is still interesting even after the great king Alfred died
@@NobleBruv Maybe you did but I didn't feel that way. To me, the show was still entertaining to watch....I didn't like how Brida became a villain tho. She got angry at Uhtred for a dumb reason and became psychotic
@History Profiles no brother thank you for putting so much effort into these great historical people, I have learned so much more about our history from them
Actually, this story was fabricated by a French Monk more than a hundred years after the events. The older, reliable records all report that Edmund died in battle. Just another fictional martyr.
@@thepoetofmusic The story was invented by Abbo of Fleury (945 -- 1004) in his work "Passio Sancti Eadmundi". You should NEVER take ANYTHING on RU-vid as a fact unless it can be confirmed by an independent, preferably written, source published by proper scientists.Passio Sancti Eadmundi
Get the joints rolling....lol. (Disclaimer): I don't advocate using marijuana....joking. light one up . History profile is so good, I feel like I'm actually there in medieval times.
The Saxons resisted for their political loyalty to their defunct kingdom, not because of any intellectual of faithful devotion to their myths. They had also engaged in impious acts of sacrilege and murder against Christians, so it's hardly worth crying for them. Remember, terms like "barbarian" and "savage" are associated with the northern European pagans for a reason.
2:51: There were no Saxon "Kings" until Heinrich I in 919 (the father of Emperor Otto the Great). The settlement that later became the town Nürnberg was first mentioned in 1050. I think both the Viking "atrocities" and the "heroic" Anglo-Saxon resistance have been ridiculously exaggerated.
East saxon maybe but splitting hairs Cedric in 519ad was the first Saxon king as recorded by all history apart from you being pedantic Alfred was the most famous.
Yeah it may not be real, but I could also be, the kings of England would have good trading ports allowing the trade of much food, and animals etc, king Aella could have ordered the snakes from abroad to kill Ragnar ceremonially as according to the sagas Ragnar himself killed Aellas father, it’s all in the gesta danorum
