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Æthelstan or Athelstan (/ ˈ æ θ əl s t æ n /; Old English: Æðelstān [ˈæðelstɑːn]; Old Norse: Aðalsteinn; lit. ' noble stone '; [4] c. 894 – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. [a] He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn.
Ecbert admits that he deeply regrets committing his friend Ragnar to death. Judith says he has no choice, but Ecbert wonders if that is true and compares himself to Pontius Pilate. In the courtyard, Ragnar gives Athelstan's (George Blagden) cross to his son Alfred and tells Ecbert that in the end, Athelstan chose Christ. Ragnar is then caged in ...
Ragnar, heartbroken by Athelstan's death, carries his body up the side of the mountain for burial and asks Athelstan for forgiveness. Ragnar's Viking fleet, also reinforced by Earl Siegfried, arrives in Francia and prepares for battle. Emperor Charles is asked by count Odo to evacuate Paris, but he refuses. Ragnar shocks them when he decides to ...
In 853, Ealhhere died in a disastrous defeat of the men of Kent and Surrey by the Vikings, and as Æthelstan is not mentioned as present at the battle he was probably dead by then. [10] A mid-ninth century burial found during excavations in the Old Minster, Winchester contained the body of a young man of 25–35. His headdress and the ...
The Vikings return to Kattegat, and the women learn of Torstein's death as the men learn of Siggy's. Ragnar is suspicious about why Aslaug was not watching the children. Floki becomes more outspoken about his hatred for Christians, and Athelstan.
In Eoferwic, Aethelstan has taken over following the death of the Northumbrian king Rǫgnvaldr and demands that all foreign kings pay him tribute or face conquest and forced baptism. Uhtred arrives and witnesses the destruction of pagan monuments, then learns that King Hywel Dda has submitted to Aethelstan after his son was taken hostage.
Specifically, the death of his half-brother Edwin in 933 might have finally removed factions in Wessex opposed to his rule, while Guthfrith, the Norse king of Dublin who had briefly ruled Northumbria, had died in 934, meaning that any resulting insecurity among the Danes would have given Æthelstan an opportunity to stamp his authority on the ...
King of the East Angles Guthrum II King of the East Angles Reign 10th-century Predecessor Æthelwold Religion Christian Guthrum II was, according to some reconstructions, a King of East Anglia in the early 10th century. Background East Anglian penny commemorating King Edmund, probably before 905 The Viking ruler of the kingdom of East Anglia is the earlier Guthrum. He took the baptismal name ...