This poem describes the death of Edward the Confessor (1065).
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This poem describes how in 1036 the Atheling Alfred was captured by Godwine, blinded, and turned over to the monks at Ely. Podcast: Play in new window | Download The entry for 975 covers all the important things that happened that year, including the death of King Edgar, greatest supporter of the Benedictine Reform. And there was a comet. And a famine. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Part of the 973 entry, this praise poem describes Edgar’s second (and somewhat mysterious) “Imperial” coronation at Bath. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Part 0f the entry f0r 942, the poem describes how King Edmund freed the five buroughs of Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford and Derby from the Danelaw. Podcast: Play in new window | Download A praise poem in honor, ostensibly, of Æthelstan’s great victory at Brunanburh, but also of the heirs of Edward who are said to have accompanied him there. The English delivere a crushing blow to the Scotts and Vikings and kill many kings and earls, who are then eaten by the Beasts of Battle. It was the greatest victory, according to the poem, since the Angles and Saxons came up into England and conquered the Welsh. Podcast: Play in new window | Download |
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