Yeah I was somewhat taken aback by that one.. replayed it to make sure I heard right.. amusing that it really said that and expected people to just take it face value as incontrovertible fact, when it is objectively speaking, so very dubious and unlikely... just goes to show how much influence keeping a record of history can wield, though not entirely outside the realm of possibility it would be fair to say that an 'accidental' poisoning sounds like a very farfetched notion.. but whoever wrote that one word 'accidentally' in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has effectuated thenceforth the idea that Beorhtric was indeed accidentally poisoned and killed, by his own wife no less, and now no-one, unless authoritative contemporaneous primary source material is somehow discovered in what would be a find of monumental significance and importance that contradicts that, can say otherwise. How do you poison someone accidentally in the first place? It seems that that isn't even touched upon, let alone explicated. Well it certainly seems that history, in this case, is quite literally written by the victors
Kent is so tiny 😢but so many kings.heard they were the first English petty kingdom founded by d legendary 😮hengist 😅 Accidentally? Poisoned by his wife? 😂I like the way u put it😅
Yeah I was somewhat taken aback by that one.. replayed it to make sure I heard right.. amusing that it really said that and expected people to just take it face value as incontrovertible fact, when it is objectively speaking, so very dubious and unlikely... just goes to show how much influence keeping a record of history can wield, though not entirely outside the realm of possibility it would be fair to say that an 'accidental' poisoning sounds like a very farfetched notion.. but whoever wrote that one word 'accidentally' in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has effectuated thenceforth the idea that Beorhtric was indeed accidentally poisoned and killed, by his own wife no less, and now no-one, unless authoritative contemporaneous primary source material is somehow discovered in what would be a find of monumental significance and importance that contradicts that, can say otherwise. How do you poison someone accidentally in the first place? It seems that that isn't even touched upon, let alone explicated. Well it certainly seems that history, in this case, is quite literally written by the victors
Offa is that classic, high achiever, competent, ruthless enough, checks the boxes.... ....but lacking that Ghengis, Charlemagne, Æthælstan, Alfred, Winston Churchill, Elvis, Freddie Mercury.... magic. Like if we were to genuinely post-mortem the heptarchy, Mercia wins hands down in everything. But Offa almost kinda unintentionally initiated their fall (I'm Northumbrian btw so no bias)
I will eventually do a video on offa! He was one of Mercias most powerful kings! His sword eventually fell into the hands of Edmund Ironside centuries later and he used to to fight the viking armies! So offa’s reputation lasted for years! It’s sad that he is a forgotten king now apart from the Anglo Saxon nerds such as myself
@@historyprofiles he's an interesting character for sure... But he's a little too cartoonish He quite literally is the epitome of putting all your eggs in one basket Imagine in the modern world - murdering every last trace of your family to ensure your son was the sole inheritor...for said inheritor to die a few months later. And not in the Ironside way of sus timely death...just cuz it's the first millennium CE and a tiny cut could kill you and you were both in your 'old age' anyhow Such a shame cuz Coenwulf and Ceowulf would have likely ran rings around the Wessex future....but Offa kinda turned the lights on at midnight at the banging party...."it's over lads." Maybe i compare him a little too much to Penda and Æthelstan, but when he had that little bitch fight with Charlemagne, I understood the Varney Vs Roony battle a little more
Excellent channel, subscribed! May I perhaps suggest to use images, or drawn images from the era ? I guess the pics here are AI generated, they look a bit too fantastical
Question: Why do people live in Wessex, Sussex, and Essex in England? Answer: Because nobody wants to live in Nosex. 😜 *Citation is not here because this comment will get deleted if I include it.
I think your notion of each one's distinction comes from things like The Last Kingdom I mean, the way the media portrays it they may as well have one in a home kit and one in away colours...each with their own mead sponsor. Its more the Norman conquest that was zealously contentious and creates the "them vs us" we know so well today
The Goths, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and the Vikings are all related to a common ancestor or ancestral home region. This is why they seem so similar to each other in both appearance, combat, and religion (until they converted to Christianity). In alot ways, the Scandinavians did kinda take over Europe in one way or another. Especially after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD when the Ostrogoths sacked Rome and sent the Western Rome's crown to Emperor Zeno of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines).
Well the Anglo were the first vikings to hit Britain but they settled how do you think they looked when they first turned up on Britain's shores and drove the cekts picts and irish out of England they didn't wear little tin hats like theses programs like vikings protray them they were Germaic and from the same part of the world as the vikings and worshiped the same gods I czn imagine they looked very similar and not how the programs protray them ,When the Famous Roman general Ceasar see 2 Angsaxon chi6in a slave market he said they looked like Angels because of how white they were and how fair thete hair was so I'd say the images are probably pretty accurate if you thinkvabout it 🏴👍🏻
@@richardjohnston3359 really? Cuz that quotes attributed to some Italian bishop in the 7th century too 😂 Honest to god... I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out that the whole millennium was just one long fairy tale - that's how ridiculous the sources sound. It's also why I loathe that i love early medieval history the most...cuz it reminds me of gross Victorians or Brexit voters banging on about the good Anglo culture - bullshit! It was never what you think it was and even if it was, trends pass Do you still use your YoYo? No? Well pipe down then...no you can't expel all non whites and pull us out of the common market...you tard
Wessex in reality came from the Hwicce, who were Lloegrians. Something weird about England and France, why is it that all their oldest Kings were sporting “Celtic” (Gallic) like names. Both nations were politically and culturally taken over, they were neither founded or forcibly taken over by the “Germanic” tribes. This often occurs within the Royalty of nations!
Emagine how our current history will sound in a thousand years .. genetics of the royal family along with the current heads of eng,ire,scots and wales + most popular baby boys name Muhammad
Yeah I was somewhat taken aback by that one.. replayed it to make sure I heard right.. amusing that it really said that and expected people to just take it face value as incontrovertible fact, when it is objectively speaking, so very dubious and unlikely... just goes to show how much influence keeping a record of history can wield, though not entirely outside the realm of possibility it would be fair to say that an 'accidental' poisoning sounds like a very farfetched notion.. but whoever wrote that one word 'accidentally' in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has effectuated thenceforth the idea that Beorhtric was indeed accidentally poisoned and killed, by his own wife no less, and now no-one, unless authoritative contemporaneous primary source material is somehow discovered in what would be a find of monumental significance and importance that contradicts that, can say otherwise. How do you poison someone accidentally in the first place? It seems that that isn't even touched upon, let alone explicated. Well it certainly seems that history, in this case, is quite literally written by the victors
I enjoy ALL of these videos that you do. I wish I could donate to you, but my fixed income, is gone before I get it. Also I am descended from Scandanavian, & Norwegian. I'm not claiming to be descended from Ragnar Lothbrok; but it was cool if I could prove the ancestry lines back that far. But they didn't keep greatest (accurate) records, back then. One of these DNA (find your relatives) says I'm descendat from Richard III, but who isn't,now? Thank you.
Some of This Does Not Make Sense. I Believe Ragnar Lothbrook Had Plundered England During the Time That Ecgberht Was King; But This Was Not Mentioned In Your Video. Actually, You Did Not Involve the Vikings Too Much During This History of King Ecgberht. And, I Thought Æthelstan Was Became King of Mercia After the Death of King Alfred?
That information is from the vikings TV show which is NOT historically accurate. If you read the Anglo Saxon chronicle in the description you will see for yourself
@@historyprofiles- My Mistake. I Am Sorry. I Was Told By Others That Had Watched “Vikings” and “The Last Kingdom”, a Lot Closer Than I, That MOST of What Was In Both Series Was Very Close to Being Historically Accurate. I Will Make It a Point to Read Both of the Book Series That are Associated With “Vikings” and “The Last Kingdom”. Thank You for Replying to My Comment.
0:44 - i think some quality control needed on your AI generated images. look at the "faces" of those three (Saxons?) in the middle, the size of that shield the middle man is holding - and what the f is that 2-tone grey metallic pole thing being wielded on the top left?!?!
Unfortunately I have to be really careful with the images I use now, and contacting 100s of artists per video takes a lot of time and I may not even get their permission to use their pictures… I will make sure in future videos there will be more quality control of the ai images! My apologies
Please do = Siward Viking Jarl/Earl of Northumbria - Ulfcytel Snillingr English warrior alongside Ironside - Skoglar Toste/Ulf of Borresta both viking warriors - Evelyn Wood Victorian officer - Richard Francis Burton Victorian Indiana Jones.
