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And It Cried 'Here! Here! Here!': King Edmund's Martyrdom by Vikings and the Miraculous Talking Head

4/20/2013

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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)
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