Matt Lewis

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1,908 appearances 31 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard today

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

collected by somebody else because they're valuable and important and the suggestion is that the swords that they've come off are being stripped of what makes them valuable and makes them stand out and perhaps recycled amongst the men so the leader of an army is issuing swords to his men because not everybody can afford to have a valuable sword lying around all of the time you know the idea that medieval households have them above the fire matched

attacked you can just go and get the sword matched

the case not not a thing yeah matched

If a warlord wants to go to war, part of his demonstration of his status is how many people can I give a sword to? matched

The Staffordshire Horde has something like 120-something sword hilts in it. matched

So this is plunder that someone has taken from all over the place. matched

And for context, Sutton Hoo has one sword hilt in it. matched

So this is someone who is probably a fairly successful... matched

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They are to some extent. matched

Bows and arrows are used for hunting and matched

used for chopping all of your wood and things like that. matched

And throughout the medieval period, you quite often see battlefield weapons that bear a remarkable resemblance to farm tools. matched

an everyday item. matched

So in the Anglo-Saxon period, people fight a lot with axes. matched

The Vikings are particularly famous for fighting with axes, but the Anglo-Saxons do as well because it's an everyday item that you know the weight of in your hand. matched

You don't need special training in how to use it. matched

You're using that seven days a week to chop wood. matched

It feels comfortable. matched

therefore if you've got to do this thing that's really scary and uncomfortable you might be able to make it a little bit easier by knowing the weight of that thing in your hand and you will quite often find simple farm tools that are used for getting apples down for trees are just stuck on a longer pole matched

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