Dr. Anthony Delaney
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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026
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And, you know, we talk about the long 18th century and stuff, but it's still only 120 odd years, whereas you guys go across centuries.
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So where does the Anglo-Saxon...
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fit into the medieval?
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Yeah, we try and claim
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and fight Tristan.
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It makes my job
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up this picture of the ruling forces that are coming into place that are shaping this society.
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And we've looked at the people that are in charge.
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We've looked at now the moral compasses.
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We have an idea that this period of time is a specifically or an especially violent time.
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Do you think that's warranted or are we imposing something on the medieval past there?
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Vikings there, and I think it's interesting to put these two things side by side, the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings, and see how that interaction is going.
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What is that coexistence, if you can call it coexistence, like?
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not a
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To attack a
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This is one of the parts of history that I really like to use as an example of sometimes phrases and catchphrases don't quite do history justice, which is history is written by the victors.
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In this case, it's absolutely not.
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History is written by the victims and in their victimhood, they shape that idea of Viking violence and therefore wider violence in Anglo-Saxon society in a really specific way.
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And I think that's why it's important that we put those two groups of people beside each other, even though I know they didn't know themselves as Vikings.
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