Maddy Pelling
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first heard May 2026
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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026
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So we've got Wessex, we've got Mercia, we've got Northumbria.
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How important are these
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individual and shifting boundaries in terms of defining this period, how people see their own identities, how they're motivated to murder potentially other people.
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period.
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And a nightmare period if you're just a peasant in a field who just wants to plough his field and just get on with life and not get hacked to death by a sword.
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And you've got to keep remembering who's in power and what's going on.
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Obviously, you've got as well the... I mean, we have the introduction of Christianity with the Romans, but this is the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Obviously, it's bringing people, as you say, from northern Germany, from Denmark.
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But Christianity does quite quickly establish itself.
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No.
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But even the Romans would be Christian, but then also have like household gods and little shrines and stuff, right?
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Like even they on a, as you say, on the ground, boots on the ground level.
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We can't exactly
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It's
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always want to think it is.
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Yeah, it's sort of a pick and mix situation.
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What I'm hearing is women are really important in this society in terms of the belief systems and bringing their own sort of cultures with them.
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who is
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This time period on screen, for example, is bloody.
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That's so interesting.
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