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Viking longship Viking exploration Viking exploration
Source: BBC Viking settlements from
Greenland to the Caspian Reconstructed
Viking house Reconstructed Viking house The Kallerup Stone (runic inscription
DR 250), a runestone in Hedehusene on Zealand in Denmark from A. D. 700 to 800 Documentaries
Episode
from the documentary series Barbarians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0pSpIzIqpk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxU4Ia7HO4Q or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogj0cARrip8 Vikings Episode from the documentary series Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMG37N1pIFc Vikings Episode # 11 of the documentary series Ancient Warriors
The Vikings Episode
from the documentary series Lost Worlds (Season 2,
Ep. 9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Zq7tqCXOc Vikings
- Journeys to New Worlds Documentary
4 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKNdt8sJ38&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53keOCIQRM&feature=related 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxxWkNHuCkY&feature=fvwrel 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh57njsvw5Q&feature=fvwrel The Vikings Who were they? National Geographic Documentary Viking settlements
in the British isles Blood of the Vikings Five-part 2001 documentary series with Julian
Richards presents the Viking invasions of British Isles
- from the raid on 1. First Bood Norwegian Vikings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5KkDZD4HE 2.
Invasion Danish Vikings 3. The
(Viking settlement in the
Part 4 is about Knut/Canute
the Great Part 5 is about Harold Hardrada (Harold the Tyrant) Both parts are referred to again below All
five parts in one (3 hrs. 55 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBVp9E_CeZQ
Vikings Lectures by Kenneth
W. Harl from the 36-lecture course Vikings (The Great Courses) This course appears from time
to time on You Tube; its is currently available as follows:
2. Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia 13.
Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar68pGkj-Q 14. The Duchy of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC9ryNmTkaQ 15. Viking Assault on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFUUXCPEkZo 16.
The Danelaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4rXFNjkPk 17. Viking Assault on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcnnitBrulk 18. Norse Kings of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tVO554iwY 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9v__oEj7Q
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Statue
of Alfred the Great by Hamo Thornycroft erected in Winchester in 1899.
King
Alfred of Wessex saved Saxon England by defeating the Danish Viking invaders at the Battle of Edington in 878 and making
a deal with them to divide the country in two, giving all of eastern England to the Vikings. This area was called the
Danelaw. The Saxons kept the west. The Viking leader accepted Christianity and became Alfred's godson. (Source:
Atlas of European History, G. Bell and Sons, London, 1910) The Five Burroughs of the Danelaw Documentary (56:06) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVWwL5sxLA Coin
from the 800s with Alfred In Search
of Alfred the Great 1980 episode from BBC documentary series
In Search of the Dark Ages with Michael Wood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AbHq1MuI4o Or in
6 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsOLu_lvHUQ 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDLASQE4iY&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-JcuWHNNg&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7DnEHvGU8&feature=relmfu 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-JcuWHNNg&feature=relmfu 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tnsv_5O5RQ&feature=relmfu Alfred the Great Episode
19 of 30 of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay Episode
presented by Michael Wood 6 August 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzrhm Alfred and the Discussion on the weekly BBC
radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg 7 April 2005 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9gm Also currently available on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wx1jQMKApk Shield Episode from the 5-part 2004 documentary Weapons that Made Britain with Mike Loades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCBMNCEMII Alfred the Great Episode from the documentary series History Makers In 4 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJ1DnpBdw8 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNusLtaZwV4 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAhcm6EiL8 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQTSj4EO_8 Afred the Great Excerpt
from movie with Michael York (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUrf0Z06roE The Search for Alfred the Great Press Conference, University of Winchester, January 17, 2014 A bone from Alfred or his son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAApiZ484k Life of King Alfred Biography by Asser, Bishop of Sherbourne Audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVJOVB2Znlk The Court of King Alfred # 14 of 30
15-minute episodes from the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program Essay January 24, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz17j#play ---------------- Silver coin with Aedelstan, Rex Britannia, minted
in England In Search of Aethelstan 1981 episode
from BBC documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages with Michael Wood Aethelstan (894 - 939), grandson of Alfred the Great, is
considered the first king of the English (925 - 939) Athelstan Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time hosted by Melvyn
Bragg (July 1, 2010) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b00sv7wd or http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sv7wd Athelstan Episode 24 (of 30) of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the
BBC radio program The Essay April 11, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rr95w#play ---------------------- Coin: Eric Rex
In Search of Eric Bloodaxe 1981 episode from the documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages
with Michael Wood Considered
the greatest of the Vikings, Eric Bloodaxe (885 - 954) was King of Norway (929 - 934) and the last Viking king of Northumbria
(947 - 948 and 952 - 954). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mokjnea_enM --------------------------------- In Search of Ethelred the Unready 1981 episode from
the documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages with Michael Wood Ethelred (968
– 1016), King of the English (978 - 1016), tried to buy off the invading Danes with money (Danegeld); his son Edmund
was defeated in battle by Knut/Cnut, the Danish Viking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGzDLpsoq5Y Aethelred the Unready Episode 27 (of 30) of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rw226
--- Vikings Conquer Harald Bluetooth Statue of KIng Harald ("Bluetooth") Gornisson
in Stockholm, Sweden Harald
I ("Bluetooth") Gornisson (ca. 911/920/935 - ca. 986) first Christian king of Denmark and Norway; father of Sweyn Forkbeard Sweyn Forkbeard Coin with
Sweyn Forkbeard from Denmark Sweyn Forkbeard (960 - 1014), King of Dennark and Norway and
first Danish king of England (1013 - 1014); son of Harald Bluetooth and father of Cnut the Great Danish Vikings invade London to mark 1,000th anniversary
(2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JKoHE0pn9M Knut/Cnut/Canute
the Great (985/995 – 1035) King of Knut/Canute on coin Empire of Knut/Cnut/Canute Empire of Knut/Cnut/Canute Knut/Cnut/Canute, Danish Viking, crowned King of England in Winchester
in 1018, and his Queen presenting
a gold cross to the Church Statue of King Knut/Cnut/Canute on Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire Rulers Viking invasions of the British Isles - from the
Battle of Maldon (991) to Knut/Canute the Great (985/995 – 1035) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY_9Y4jKlvo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLiDbji3PA Cnut the Great Episode 25 of 30 of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the
BBC radio program The Essay August 7, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rr95y Queen Emma Episode 26 of 30 of the
series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay
Queen Emma of Normandy was the wife and queen of King Ethelred the Unready and then
married his conqueror, Cnut. August 5, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rw0z9#play ------------ Vikings Three lectures by Kenneth
W. Harl, recorded by the Teaching Company 28. Formation of the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_6tVb3FfE
29. Knut/Cnut the Great (Knut/Cnut the
Old) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4D_K3ta8nI 30. Collapse
of Knut's Empire
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Norman Conquest Timelines: Rulers of England before the Norman Conquest in 1066 King Edward ("The Confessor") Edward ("The Confessor"), a Saxon, son of King Ethelred ("the Unready"), a Saxon, and
Queen Emma, a Norman; KIng of England since 1042; dies, without heir, January 1066 King Edward ("The Confessor") of England in the Bayeux Tapestry Statue of King Edward ("the Confessor") on the Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire Edward the Confessor Episode
28 (of 30) from the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay August 7, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rw22b
----------- King Harold II Godwinson Harold Godwinson, son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, a Saxon, the most powerful
man in England, and a Viking sister-in-law of Cnut the Great, becomes King Harold II of King Harold II Godwinson of England in the Bayeux Tapestry Harold
Godwinson Episode 29 of 30 of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program
The Essay August 7, 2014
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Vikings in 1066 The two invasions of England: by (1) Harald Hardrada, King of
Norway, and Tostig Godwinson, brother of the King Harold Godwinson of England, in September 1066; and by (2) William,
Duke of Normandy in October 1066. First Invasion "The Last Viking Invasion (of England)" Vikings led by King Harold Hardrada
of invade King Haraold III Hardrada of Norway
in window painting in the Lerwick Town Hall, Shetland Islands Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, deposed as Earl of Northumbria and exiled
in 1065, leads raids against the coasts of England in 1066 Battle of Fulford Gate Vikings led by Tostig Godwinson and Harald Hardrada defeat English armies led
by Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, at the Battle of Fulford Gate, September
20, 1066 pic Battle of Fulford, 20 September 1066 Account of the battlefield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdouFSDxX8o Vikings defeated by King Harold of England at Stamford Bridge, September 25, 1066; Tostig
and Harald Hardrada killed in the battle The Battle of Stamford Bridge from The
Life of King Edward the Confessor by Matthew Paris (mid to late 1200s) The Battle of Stamford Bridge
by Peter Nicolai Arbo (1870); Harald Hardrada, center, in light blue,
shot in the neck with an arrow Last of the Vikings Epsiode 5 of the five-part 2001 BBC documentary series Blood
of the Vikings with Julian Richards considers epigraphical, archeological and genetic research Harald Hardrada Battle of Stamford Bridge Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg
and his guests (June 2, 2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011jvlt
---------------- Second Invasion Norman victory over the Saxons (English) at the Duke William of Normandy becomes King of England William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest Statue of William the Conqueror, Falaise, Normandy - birthplace
of William Silver coin with William the Conqueror Duke William II of Normandy invades England and the Battle of Hastings, October 14, 1066 The Batttle of Hastings by Charles Henry Granger (1812 – 1893) The https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su95GWkYHZQ 2010 3-part BBC documentary Ep. 1. Men from
the North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7SX3ulV_tk (4 clips) 1. N. A. 2. N. A. 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAMql5Ajq8E 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuTVs-OLL_s&feature=relmfu For episodes 2 and 3, see below Episode 2 of the documentary series
Monarchy with David Starkey King William I "The Conqueror" (1028-1087) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gItfGVaRnZo 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1ujajcPa0&feature=related 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrXAVYEy-fs&feature=related In Search of William the Conqueror 1981 episode from the BBC documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages with Michael
Wood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGQuvFNbHg or in 5 clips: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMsxnBj2wZY 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeqPbw5vyk&feature=related 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOY3AKmqfYg&feature=related 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYdf6bcIlSE&feature=related 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvH7K6DVKoY&feature=related William the Conqueror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkJ0sKrzN0&feature=related Episode from the documentary series Line of Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAMURaA7XoU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZLjZaSbvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rAXH09qRY 1066 Hastings Documentaire
dans la serie Les Grandes Batailles Du Passé par Henri de Turenne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OJ6dVGyXTc Excerpt
from the documentary series Seven Ages of Britain Britain’s Bayeux Tapestry Reading Museum The Bayeux Tapestry described scene by scene Reading Museum Website http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/Index.htm
The Animated Bayeux Tapestry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ4D4_E The Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfcTHsw4SY The
Makers of the Bayeaux Tapestry The last of 30 episodes of the
series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay July 29, 2014 The entire Bayeux Tapistry on display in Bayeux Entire Bayeux Tapestry For a description of the entire Bayeux Tapestry: Harold Godwinson Last Saxon
King of Death of King
Harold Godwinson by an arrow to the eye at the Battle of Hastings, Bayeux Tapestry King Harold 2001 episode from the BBC documentary series Fact or Fiction with Tony Robinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpNSgfPOgM
After the Battle of Hastings, William conquers England Documentary about the Viking invasions of 1066 The story of a Saxon village in 1066 (2
parts) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnC6l6_TaMA&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPnCt0IktfQ&feature=relmfu A History of Documentary with Simon Schama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaMAIq5xRY&feature=relmfu Dominions of William
the Conqueror circa 1087 Conquest
Episode
2 of the 2010 BBC documentary series The Normans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0Ny0jTiGc (Or in 4 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwKTc6h4Cb4&feature=relmfu 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQAaV5_GvxI&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbkM5Rnle8&feature=relmfu 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brq4OKkisPY&feature=relmfu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWPwnvYyAhc The Domesday Book (1086) Discussion on the BBC weekly radio program In Our Time hosted by
Melvyn Bragg, April 17, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040llvb Domesday Book & Death of William the Conqueror Horrible Histories Measly Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUuUbgHrxQ8 Norman Conquest of the Southern Italy and The Episode 3 of the 2010 BBC documentary
series The
Normans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnXsYdJ9uo Or
in 3 clips 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvycEqq2PW4&feature=relmfu 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_liFeM5Io&feature=relmfu Vikings Lecture
by Kenneth W. Harl, recorded by the Teaching Company 35.
From Vikings to Crusaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aicWVe5Sk The Adventure of English 8-part 2003 documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg, host of the weekly BBC radio
programme In Our Time On the influence of Norman French (Old French) (Language
of
the Latinized Vikings of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxRP2pkNBXU
Source L’Empire des Plantagenêts
(1154 – 1214) 2000
ans d’histoire sur France Inter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSDDz_g-XQQ Normans to Magna Carta
Episode 1 of the
documentary series Kings and Queens of England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM5AUiicoQo Conquest Episode 3 of the 2004 documentary series
Monarchy with David Starkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thhJiPAZT0 Dynasty Episode 4 of the 2004 documentary series Monarchy with David Starkey
About King Henry II and his heirs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTx0hbKKdc King Henry II of 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZHen6A_rrw 2. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a6uXB7aaJeQ&feature=related 3. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=TU4HG5skFCU&feature=related Episode
from the BBC documentary series Cathedral Becket Entire 1964 movie in one clip, with Richard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6nWIcevOE Clips
from above movie with Becket's murder: 14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGFvcXLMAJ0&feature=related 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcfkUokMGIc&feature=related Thomas Becket Discussion on the Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg With guests Laura Ashe, Michael Staunton and
Danica Summerlin
14 December 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hp2rm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xo4tUMdAMw The
Story of Magna Carta 1215 Magna Carta in Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqcWdL1BFo Magna Carta and the Emergence of Parliament 800th
Anniversary of the Sealing of Magna Carta 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0bA2wzSmc4 Magna Carta 800 Years Magna Carta,
de Montfort and the Emergence of Parliament 1258, 1265 Middle English
Middle English
Late 1000s to late 1400s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnXgVTTrCI
ca. 1100 - ca. 1155
The mythical foundation of Britain by Brutus of Troy
Brutus of Troy
Anthony Adolph talks about his 2015 book Brutus of Troy and the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzy4MtWeAq0
Historia Regum Britanniae
add here
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The Legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
King Arthur's knights at the round table at Pentecost (1470)
The Legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Camelot, Merlin . . .
In Search of Arthur
Episode from the documentary series In Searc Of with Michael Wood (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tuU021TMw
Arthur - The Once and Future King
Episode from the 2005 documentary series In Search of Myths and Heroes with Michael Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQaI4yzGeRw
King Arthur
1995 documentary on the Biography Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdG7HaX54c
King Arthur
Episode from the National Geographic documentary series Is it Real?
5 clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLATxHGRqFg&index=1&list=PL6PfINI5gwwy2wamne9wO3R_Zr8jM8eHa
King Arthur
Documentary with Richard Harris (2002)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsLaiTrjZh0
King Arthur's Britain
Episode from the 2004 documentary series Britain A. D. with Francis Pryor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aQAtlrCpGQ
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eumQac5rPvE
The Real King Arthur
Episode from the 2000 documentary series Time Team Special with Tony Robinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkFgWR8FfF0
The Search for King Arthur's Bones
Episode from the 2013 documentary series Myth Hunters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xJXdaiu28
Le Mortre d'Arthur
by Thomas Mallory
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table The tale as told by Sir
Thomas Malory (1485)
In Middle English 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYDxzVsIqEg 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQ9qf39AvQ&feature=related 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJEiE_Wa80 Le Morte d'Arthur Discussion
with Melvyn Bragg on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pp989/In_Our_Time_Le_Morte_dArthur/
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer on the Ellesmere Manuscript
Geoffrey Chaucer on the Hoccleve Manuscript
First page of The Wife of Bath's Prologue Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KVcMjtgb8Q
Canterbury TalesThe Prologue in Modern English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuX-gTpWsnI&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aax4tMfoIxk&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMypzdWxsc&feature=related The Canterbury Tales
Study Guide http://www.gradesaver.com/the-canterbury-tales/study-guide/summary Geoffrey
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Summary (audio only) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpVAuQUlI-k The Monk’s Tale Audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLujJx4lDa8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pB97uTGF00 Modern Text http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/CanterburyTalesXV.htm Original Text http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22120/22120-h/22120-h.htm#monk
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The Legend of Robin Hood Robin Hood
Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg and his guests (October 30, 2003) (29:02)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005492h
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Weekly English TV show from 1955 to 1959
Episode from 1956 season, Richard the Lionheart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3CCLTZVwFk
The Real Robin Hood
Documentary produced after a movie with Russell Crowe (01:24:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg1ts675WGk
A Critical Guide to the Canterbury Tales
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