And It Cried 'Here! Here! Here!': King Edmund's Martyrdom by Vikings and the Miraculous Talking Head4/20/2013 
In 870 Edmund, the king of East Anglia, was killed by a Viking army. Discover how this event was transformed from a battle between two armies into the story of a Christian martyrdom.
Podcaster: Nicole
Further Reading
Rudyard, Susan. The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Sawyer, P.H. From Roman Britain to Norman England. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978. Winroth, Anders. The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) Leave a Reply. |