Daily Medieval

I mentioned yesterday that the control of northern England passed in and out of Anglo-Saxon and Viking hands until finally the inhabitants ...

King Æthelstan (c.890s - 27 October 939) united England under a single ruler, prevented invasion, reformed the law, and donated to the Churc...

These may be the remains of Olaf Guthfrithsson Not historical coincidence; recent coincidence. In the post on Vikings in Ireland , just...

A sign of Viking presence in Ireland: a Viking ship built in Dublin c. 1042 As alluded to in the post on King Edmund I , Ireland was th...

from a  genealogy of the kings of England Edmund I Edmund the Magnificent Edmund the Just Edmund the Deed-Doer It isn't often...