The True Story of King Æthelstan | The Last Kingdom 

"Was" Were his teeth too crooked and his hands too soft that you had to end the marriage? :P

Son you don't get soft hands when your fighting wars with countries that can fight back for thousands of years lol seriously where you from? The English has been fighting wars with each other and the whole world for thousands of years invading and conquering France later destroying French empires then Spanish empire Dutch empire invading Turkey and most of Africa all of north America thrashed all useless aboriginal peeps ( ok the British thermonuclear bombs dropping on them in Australia in the 50s was wrong) shooting them for trying to eat us was totally justified I mean after conquering everybody we then fought each other then after Germany tried to take us on 😂😁😃😅😄 twice we thrashed them and also paid for Frances and Belgians and Russia's war with 4 million men we destroyed the German army bit by bit cost millions of men but hey I served in the British army and served in Iraq I seen that nasty world only ww1 would of x60 worse but the massive British fleet destroyed the gay little German fleet then we thrashed the Turks Austria then after the USA enter the war to ehh fight one battle, the British had to invade Russia created the Baltic states and invade Ukraine and Caucasian states to stop communism from spreading yes we actually fought the enemy hot not cold then ww 2 most of the British army 4 million men had to be sent to India Burma because Japanese was the main threat to the empire, leaving 3 million in Britain we only sent half a million to France the Germans didn't have a surface fleet only uboats trying to starve us but control of the air might of helped but in 1940 we blew them out the sky we sank there navy 20 year earlier so Germany lost the west but the east was where Nazi wanted to set up empire so they sent 75% of there army and air force to invad and after killing 30 million Soviet people the Russian turned them around and annihilated them alone, but the English have war and resistance in there blood there bred for war I mean the working class and poor the middle class rejects in metropolitan London have soft hands and cocks almost worse than the Americans,

@@liamsnow4642 She said English, not American

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Having such experience must've grand I'm a little jealous 😉

Yes I know what you mean Netflix made a woke version of him and his boyfriend 🤦‍♂️ ridiculous

him being gay makes it woke even tho english kings were known for their promiscuity? i dont get it lol did u not want them to be historically acurate?@@MICHAEL-wg2lh

@@MICHAEL-wg2lh there was nothing woke about it

@@Justaguy10723 the king having a fella was ...... Put in the script by .... Woke people shock horror obviously you are too lollll

Nip English nationalism in the bud by not telling the people how they became who they became. People of Anglo-Saxon descent are generally working class as of 1066 so all those in power generally prefer to gloss over the English pre Norman overlords. Many of those in power today can trace their ancestry back to those who crossed the channel in 1066 and it's not just the Aristocracy or Monarchy.

@@dontgivamonkeyz And yet those ancestors absorbed our culture and married English people. So we had the last laugh! By the way, there are plenty of people in power with non Norman roots, we can thank social mobility for that.

Well I guess William the conqueror decended from Rollo who was a Northman so swings n roundabouts :D It is a shame though as so much happened between the Romans leaving and 1066 that I feel it should be taught, I doubt most kids in the UK school system would even know that England was once the central hub of a great northern empire

Genetics trace my English roots to well before Saxon times but my family name is from Saxon/Angle/Jute origins - genetic analysis shows that the Angle/Saxon/Jute influx accounts for a tiny percentage (although> Norman) of the gene pool of most traditional English families, so the vast part of the gene pool of English peoples predates that period but also predates Celtic culture too. Nationlism remains an ignorant and devisive idea that everyone would be better off rejecting - judge people (if you must) by their character, not their imagined origins.

Indeed Luis! All that will be left of us is what we did in life…. Thank you so much for watching!!

@@historyprofiles the soul lives on

@@desirejohnson2124 no

And kings of today takes all our money😑1mil a year for a princess🤡

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😂😅😊 the Vikings got slaughtered by the Saxons and English 95,% of the time the Viking were really good at beat the Saxon undefended churches and monestrys .....get back to watching your gay vikings son the English have war in there blood that's why they conquer and invaded all 12 countries lol

@@acecolnaco6587 Calm down big fella. We know your fingers ache with the rage of all nerds before, but lest thy Cheetos go forever, calm you ponies and rest thy Diet Coke. Nerd rage will not prosper beyond the Kingdom of your Mothers basement. Seek wisdom, not from D&D, but from real work, the trades. Get a skill and become a man. The original comment was a joke, you will learn in time, heavy one. My work here is done.

​@@acecolnaco6587moden day England is built on saxon an vikings we all decend from both we could be full viking ancestry or full saxon or a mix but vikings never left like the German saxons

The Last Kingdom and the movie were very well done fiction, not an historical documentary. Not so far from the true to be completely BS (screenplay simply filled with fantasy things that we don't know), well acted and accurate in portraiting costumes and battles. But just fiction, never forget It and never mix It with true history.

@@margheritatimeus3400 well fiction draws people to the real history. I certainly enjoyed the movie. But eventually I will learn the real history.

@@sozibrahman8504 it drew me to the real history and I’m an Italian

@@margheritatimeus3400 i am not from UK (from India) yet I got into history related to the house of wessex after watching the series and movie

It's all bullcrap fake history especially female warriors which never happened especially in battles.

Destiny is all!

Fate is inexorable, you mean...

@@amyholbrook9419 Amy, that is an unexpected word choice, to be honest I had to Google it. Is " inexorable " a normal word you use in your daily vocabulary ? I have NEVER heard that word used in a sentence in my entire life.

@@grover2727 No It's an old fashioned word, but used in Last Kingdom

It's the proper phrase from the original Bernard Cornwell books. For the OG fans...

I watched that and so enjoyed it, very informative, I love hearing the Anglo Saxon language, the amazing Michael Wood can speak the language, 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@@Boudicca15 You might enjoy Simon Roper's channel. He has videos where he speaks Anglo-Saxon and Old English.

​​@@MrVvulf Yes or maybe she will enjoy that season/episode where Floki gets enough of Athelstan 😂🤷‍♂️😂

@@dennisolesen6188 Haha. Different Aethelstan, but I get and appreciate the joke.

Michael Wood is one of the best TV historians of recent years , his series about the village of Kibworth is definitely worth seeing if you haven't already seen it .

Can someone tell me what happened that monk kid in The Last Kingdom? What did Brida do to him when he was all bloody on his stomach? Or did she cut off his balls?

@@emwjmannen2 that was uhtreds son, she cut it all off.

@@trustno1z Really, wow?!

@@emwjmannen2 🤣🤣🤣good job changing your question!! You asked about athelstan the bastard!! Two different people!!

Try reading about England’s history during civil wars. My God, Ii couldn’t get thru it.

Maybe the powers that be don’t want the plebs to realise that in a roundabout way the Vikings conquered England through William the Conqueror, descendant of Danish/Norman Viking Rollo 🤔

The ruling elite don't want people to know that the English are the victims of colonialism by the Norman's and their ancestors to this very day. Let's face it the English have been ruled by one foreigner after another for a millenia. French Normans/plantagenets for 300+ yrs then Welsh (Tudors) then Scots (Stuarts) a Dutch Orange bloke some Germans (Hanoverians) then more Germans (saxe Coburg gotha) aka the Windsors. Even before 1066 were subjugated by Danes, the British Establishment gave away all their overseas lands they conquered but still held on to the English ones.

@@jenniferharrison4319 The Normans did not consider themselves Viking at all, that'd be like saying the French nobility were German

@@ambitiousram On top of that, even "Vikings" did not consider themselves Viking; vikings were never a nation or an ethnicity, they never called themselves Vikings, it was something they did (go on a viking - raiding, by boat), so calling them Norse, Northmen or, as the English did - Danes (as they called all Scandinavians) would be more accurate.

@@ambitiousram They are. Vikings are German also.

Do it

@@historyprofiles today me and the wife are going binge watch as much as we can.

You will absolutely LOVE it. It is sooooo good. Definitely one of my all time favorite shows. I wish they had done more seasons but I look forward to the movie. :)

love the series..love,friends, revenge,loyal,satisfy all in one...

​@@jscho8674 Uhtred is clearly an immortal, considering how many generations he lives through by the end.

Bruh they could kick ass before they were united. It took 30-50 years before the Franks would defeat the Saxons and Frisians. And despite losing many battles and wars. Killed hundreds of thousands of Franks. And the Saxons and Frisians in Britain destroyed remnants of Roman forces and private auxiliary units and later Welsh armies or each other in Britain.

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 well said, true. Though they foght each other because of the heptarchy rivalry, the Anglo-Saxons fought hard against every foe and eventually unified England under æthelstan, against a coalition!

@@Fatherland927 yes. Both British and continental Anglo-Saxons were powerful. Losing battles? They still killed so many enemies that it often would feel like defeats. There were still Jutes and Angles left in Denmark. No way they were simply absorbed. They probably put up tough rebellions to resist Danish occupation before the inevitable conquest. Besides, Angles, Danes, Geats, Jutes, Saxons, Frisians, all made up a culturally genetically overlapping cline of continuum of cultures. Disregarding the arbitrary North Sea and North Germanic boundaries. Plus as my quora answer shows. Angles and Saxons are lists of hundreds of tribes in a confederation

But Alfred does get credit , - its in his Title "The Great" ,the only English king to be called thus. Aethelflead ,his daughter and the "Lady of the Mercians" must have been astounding , - what a woman, In a time of Male kings ,she made all the minor kings submit to her ... She didnt live long enough to unite all of England properly but she would have .. Aethelstan - Alfreds Grandson was taught or tutored by Aethelflead and united all of Britain including the Scots Welsh Strathclyde and Danish kings who all submitted to him ,- until the Battle of Brunanburgh ...All credit to Bernard Cornwall,the author of the fictional but based on fact "Last Kingdom" books for helping to throw some light into the Dark ages .Enthralling subject .Why Hollywood didnt get into the act ,i have no idea but the "Vikings" film of some years ago starring Kirk Douglas Tony Curtis etc is also a thrilling watch .

They are a Victorian fictional people. Same as 'celts'.

They really were! Thank you so much for watching!

Ingle's were Spanish and Saxons were French

@@annychest718 Not german??

@@annychest718 Saxon = sons of Isaac.

I've watched all these now and more last kingdom is solely responsible for my sudden interest in Anglo Saxon and vikings histories

Uhtred was a fictional character, no doubt there were great generals helping the king

Destiny is all!

​@Laura Golanch semi- fictional. There was an Uhtred of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg), but he wasn't involved in any of the story we got in the show.

He was indeed ! Thank you so much for watching!

Edward was misrepresented in Kingdom. Aethelstan's early life was spent with his aunt, the formidable Lady of the Mercians; with that example it's no surprise he grew up to be such a bad ass.

Edward was no slouch in TLK, and he definitely wasn’t irl.

And the whole bloodline was badass, well apart from Aethelred the ‘unready’ of course.

Anglo-Saxon history has been poorly presented by tv shows over last decade very little is accurate.

John you know a lot about Englands history 👍

Same one who fought against Ragnar?

The battle of Ellendun which was won by Ecgbhert against Mercia was won of the most decisive battles fought on English soil.

I agree John, that may have been an oversight on my part. Thank you so much for watching! And there might be an Ecgbert video on the way!

@@historyprofiles 👍😊

Thank you so much! It really means a lot!

Thank you so much for watching! Your comment really means a lot to me!!

Hello

@@cyankirkpatrick5194 Hi Cyan😁👍

@@marinakaiser7639 👋

Thank you so much Jamie!

@@historyprofiles your welcome mate

Amazing to have him as an ancestor! I hope you enjoyed the content!

@@historyprofiles yes. Good job!

Hi there dear Elke.Hope you are well. I am recovering from major surgery. It is good to be home. 🍎💃🤗👌

@@pinklady3885 Hi dear Pink Lady! Oh! Sorry hear that, I didn't know! Glad all went well and you are home! Wish good recovery for you. Make sure you have plenty of rest! Blessings nice lady🙏🏻 Thank you, I'm not to bad, had appts this morning and I got here later to listen to Ollie. I might have more surgeries in near future. We just celebrate our lives at the moment, because God is Good isn't?🕊 I already listened the video twice, love these histories. Wish great day dear one🌻 See you next!

@@ELKE- Thank you so much for your response. Yes God is good and helps us to stay strong. Ollie does such good interesting history and his voice is so delightful... I enjoy these interesting times and unusual names. I will now rest.... see you next week. 💃🍎😴😴🤗❤️🏵️🐝💐🌳🥀🌼🌸🌻🍁🍀

@@pinklady3885 You are welcome dear Pink! Yes, I love listen to him also, he and his brothers has the most beautiful voice to narrate stories. And Ollie has the magnificent one for those kind histories. I imagine him as one of the Kings or Vikings, while he narrate them! Lol Silly me😄 Okay, I go back to my rest too. 6:52pm here already! Good night and good rest! 🌻🌼🍂🦋🌹🦩🤗 Yes, see you next week!

Thank you so much Elke!!

Thank you so much for watching!!!

I agree, TLK is good.:) The Vikings at first was entertaining, but it's more fantasy than history. And I still cringe at Uppsala being a temple in the Norwegian mountains.😬 (It was and is a famous historical city on the coast of Sweden, next to Stockholm.) In the Vikings they took huge liberties and combined at least 2 centuries of history, like Rollo duke of Normandy was on the first ever viking raid to Lindisfarne... The storytelling in the last seasons of the Vikings sucked so much in my opinion that I didn't want to waste my time, even though it would be kind of interesting to know what happened in the end.

@@elainelouve Isn't it funny when you stick with a show for years, then lose interest right at the end? I've watched every season of The Walking Dead, religiously, then it just completely lost me during its final season. At least you're a bit interested in knowing how Vikings ended. After watching the first 4 TWD episodes this season, I realized that I just don't care. They're still introducing new groups and new characters, when I think that the last season should have been focused just on the core characters. So many characters come in and go on that show, there are people who have been on for 3-4 years and I still don't know their names. The show just became too big in terms of the cast. I know that my 2 favourite characters, Daryl and Carol, survive because they're doing a spinoff show...that's really all I need to know. I love history, and I realize that when I watch a historical TV show or movie, there's going to be some liberties taken with actual events for the sake of brevity and entertainment. But when they start fudging with the facts to the point where they are actually presenting a version of history that is just grossly inaccurate, that will make me lose interest very quickly. If the inaccuracies in Vikings was as bad as you say, I can understand your frustration, and why you lost interest in the show. Isn't Viking/Norse history interesting enough as it is....did they think they could make it more intetesting by playing with the facts??

@@Terri_MacKay yes, that's so true. They could have easily made it about generations, because they already have the sons of the original hero become the main focus. And now there's a spinoff series that goes further in history. The Icelandic sagas also tell about the families and the origin of the heroes, so that would work even in a more fantasy context (they utilized those old tales and added mythological characters, and I'm ok with that, because it fits the theme, but I wanted more historical and cultural accuracy to back it up).

GOT is is just as good.....

Iron poisoning

I also think he was killed, how he died is in no source I could find though was probably covered up…. Aethelstans reign wasn’t recoded that well though compared to his grandfather Alfreds

@@historyprofiles It would make sense for that time frame. A lot of potential claimants to a throne were killed. The projection of strength, power and ruthlessness seem to have been more important to a long lasting reign than honor, peace and love. Especially in that Era, where there were so many different "kingdoms" where each and every king, earl or nobleman did whatever they could or had to to gain more power, prestige and riches. The line of succession wasn't as important as it later became with the Witan having the power to choose somebody else, so if a younger brother was a potential threat, then they had to die. Often for the good of the people to avoid civil war.

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I know it’s a complete joke. If we learnt interesting immersive things about our ancestors things would be much better

Nope, he was in a completely different time period.

A good general helped the King, in Bernard Cornwell's books, Utrecht is that general, but he is fictional.

You mean 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (🇬🇧 = UK)

The character is entirely fictional.

Uhtred was roughly seventy years later after athelstan's rule. He was eaolderman of northumbria from 1010 till his death in 1016 😊

Is called seven Kings must die and it is totally awesome I wish and hope that they could do more about Richard I just adore this movie and the series The last Kingdom

Vinland Saga takes place nearly 100-years after this. Vinland Saga was not inspired by the unification of England but the conquest of England by Canute as its backdrop, with Thorfinn’s expedition to Canada being the main focus.

very true

And yet nothing changes

It would make sense if you lived within those times. If you had to go to war or you had to make peace it had to be done because you wanted to live comfortably in your life.

That's because Bernard Cornwell created him.

Very sad because of this I hate Alfred

He was in Last Kingdom ya numpty

@@nathanielanderson4367 I’m well aware of that. That’s where the image from him is from, still by putting the one in Vikings too which isn’t the same one. He isn’t in that show whatsoever nor is Edward.

@@brooke6549 I don't remember seeing any pictures from Vikings?

@@rhzyo the description.

I think in the Vikings it was supposed to be Aethelstan's son who becomes the great king. Or something. Can't remember how that turned out, if they ever got to it, and I quit watching when Ivar was in Russia.

He was known as the overlord of Briton having brought all the Kings to heel. So although he may have not "officially" been the first King of England, he was certainly more powerful than Kings of England having dominion over Scotland as well. I suppose he paved the way for Kings of England, and although he may have not been known by the title it fits

Too busy fighting and that. Betrayal most everywhere. Unable to trust therefore unable to reproduce? Just 💭:)

Some people can’t have children.

he is in love with uhtred

I agree with you. I only liked the last scene where he dosnt know to go to Valhalla or sty alive