Battle of Brunanburh, 937 ⚔ How did Alfred the Great’s grandson Athelstan create England?

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11 responses to “Battle of Brunanburh, 937 ⚔ How did Alfred the Great’s grandson Athelstan create England?”

1. October 6, 2023

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2. October 9, 2023

   LovieHowell

   1066 Edward the Confessor

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3. October 9, 2023

   The M

   My favourite history channel by far! <3

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4. October 10, 2023

   Malcolm Smith

   Cool

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5. October 10, 2023

   ishtiak ahmed

   Where is the hannibal series?

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6. October 10, 2023

   Happy Cats

   you lost me at the add.

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7. October 10, 2023

   Hamza mapping edits

   Wow

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8. October 10, 2023

   Ms Zee Zed

   11:10 – The battle’s unknown location is not so weird. The location of Senlac Hill, site of the 1066 Battle of Hastings, was only identified in the late C20th. The naming of the nearby town as “Battle”, which is North of Hastings, maybe centuries old and seem obvious in hindsight, but there was no written record naming the battlefield location conclusively. It took much careful sifting of archeological, historical and geophysical data to locate the hill. Searches for this 937 battle have often looked in the North East of England, close to Scotland, but current research points to the North West as the more logical point for the landing armies to arrive and for the English to intercept them. The unfortunate difficulty with the current suspected site of Brunaburgh being near Brombourgh on the Wirral, is that England built a highway through this plain in the 1970s and may have accidentally excavated and buried part of the battle site. Also the coast of this area has constantly shifted, with massive semi-permanent ports built on wooden pontoons stretching out to the sea rebuilt several times over the Millenia, making the point where the landing army of Dublin & Strathclyde came ashore to unite with Constantine, equally different to find.

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9. October 10, 2023

   Constantine Joseph

   Sir what’s plan A?

   – It’s the shield wall

   And what’s our plan B?

   – we’ll fall back again on our trusted shield wall

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10. October 10, 2023

    M U

    Anyone else notice Aethelstan looks like Putin in a wig?

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11. October 11, 2023

    Hashem Hashem

    what about Hannibal ???

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