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Sep 17, 2026

Gretel le Maître Ponders Beauty, with Bede & other guests

The Dedicated Listener meets a Brontë, a Chronicle, Caedmon, King Edwin, a Princess of Hesse & Mr Pickwick

Sep 17 · 2 Mentions

Gretel le MaîtreHOST

0:39

Hello, this is a purely literary episode.

Gretel le MaîtreHOST

0:42

It's Wednesday evening and I'm starting with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Gretel le MaîtreHOST

0:50

Remember that? We were reading it quite a long time ago.

Gretel le MaîtreHOST

0:53

AD 995 and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is on the cusp of the millennium.

Gretel le MaîtreHOST

1:02

We're on the cusp of having our son go to university.

Gretel le MaîtreHOST

1:06

We're also on the cusp of exchanging with my mother's property in London.

Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast

Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, "The Precarious Past in Premodern Java" (University of California Press, 2026)

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

47:59

However, there are other ways, and with the annals in particular, with this kind of chronological text, a very common method for composing them is to get fragments and bits and pieces of other chronicles and combine them into one, and this is a phenomenon that we see not just in Java but also in pre-Norman England, for example.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:21

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has all these different versions of which they sort of mutually borrow or excerpt or elaborate on bits from each other.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:30

So this is complex network of different versions that are borrowing from each other, and this is certainly what happened in pre-modern Java as well.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:38

What that results in is sometimes that composition is done in a way that leads to inconsistencies.

New Books in Ancient History

Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, "The Precarious Past in Premodern Java" (University of California Press, 2026)

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

42:12

And with the annals in particular, with this kind of chronological text, a very common method for composing them is to get fragments and bits and pieces of other chronicles and combine them into one.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

42:26

And this is a phenomenon that we see not just in Java, but also In pre-Norman England, for example, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has all these different versions of which they sort of mutually borrow or excerpt or elaborate on bits from each other.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

42:41

So this is a complex network of different versions that are borrowing from each other.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

42:46

And this is certainly what happened in pre-modern Java as well.

New Books in Medieval History

Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, "The Precarious Past in Premodern Java" (University of California Press, 2026)

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:33

And this is a phenomenon that we see not just in Java, but also in pre-Norman England, for example.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:39

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has all these different versions of which they sort of mutually borrow or excerpt or elaborate on bits from each other.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:48

So this is complex network of different versions that are borrowing from each other, and this is certainly what happened in pre-modern Java as well.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

48:56

What that results in is sometimes that composition is done in a way that leads to inconsistencies, it leads to, uh, non-chronological ordering, and as you mentioned, it leads sometimes to duplication.

New Books in Southeast Asian Studies

Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, "The Precarious Past in Premodern Java" (University of California Press, 2026)

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

40:47

And with the annals in particular, with this kind of chronological text, a very common method for composing them is to get fragments and bits and pieces of other chronicles and combine them into one.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

41:01

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

41:16

So this is a complex network of different versions that are borrowing from each other.

Wayan Jarrah SastrawanGUEST

41:20

And this is certainly what happened in pre-modern Java as well.

The strange and mysterious world Podcast

Are Dragons Real? Richard Freeman on Modern Sightings | S6E11

Sep 15 · 1 Mention

Richard FreemanGUEST

23:17

There are a number of legends like that where it just appears and then disappears.

Richard FreemanGUEST

23:22

And they turn up in the records as things like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where they're recorded as being seen flying over the island of Lindisfarne.

Richard FreemanGUEST

23:31

And they're described as winged monsters.

Richard FreemanGUEST

23:35

And they're not comets or meteors because they're described as something different.

History Profiles

Viking Kings: Power Struggles in England's Ancient Kingdoms

Sep 14 · 6 Mentions

OllieHOST

65:23

In the year 954, the Northumbrians abandoned Erik for the final time.

OllieHOST

65:28

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the event with brutal simplicity.

OllieHOST

65:33

Erik was expelled, and Eadred took control of Northumbria.

OllieHOST

65:38

But the last Viking king of York did not vanish peacefully.

8 MINS LATER

OllieHOST

73:57

Edmund was killed, either during the fighting or after being captured, His death marked the effective end of the independent Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia.

OllieHOST

74:08

The Vikings gained control of the region, its land, settlements, and resources.

OllieHOST

74:14

The earliest surviving account of these events is found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

OllieHOST

74:20

Its description is brief.

Unknown podcast

Alfred the Great’s Lost Bones: A Quest Through History

Sep 14 · 1 Mention

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:31

No grave goods or inscriptions were found, and the coffin itself was relatively plain, typical of many ordinary medieval burials.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:41

Historical texts from Asser, the 9th century biographer, and from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reference Alfred's burial only in general terms, in Winchester.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:51

They never describe a shrine or an altar stone.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

7:54

Subsequent writers also kept these details vague, perhaps to avoid revealing sensitive church secrets or because precise knowledge was lost.

Unknown podcast

Edmund Ironside: Royal Death or Murder Myth?

Sep 14 · 1 Mention

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:12

We need to look first at the contemporaneous accounts and not rely solely on later storytelling.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:19

The most immediate source for 1016 is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a set of annals copied in monasteries across Wessex.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:27

It records that Edmund fell ill in late November, and it goes no further, simply stating he died after an illness or misfortune without specifying cause.

speaker_1UNKNOWN

1:38

That brevity reflects the chronicler's purpose to record events rather than medical details.

Unknown podcast

The Great Heathen Army and the Making of Early English State

Sep 14 · 1 Mention

speaker_0UNKNOWN

5:17

They named this new realm Jorvik and set up a court where law codes blended Viking and Saxon norms.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

5:23

The Jorvik Law Rolls, preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, record that disputes over land were settled by the same fealty obligations familiar to the English nobility, but judged under a mixed system of oath and spear-wielding judges.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

5:38

Moreover, this court also allowed for dispute resolution between Anglo-Saxon tenants and Viking settlers, setting a precedent for later dual legal systems across England.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

5:50

The influence on language was profound.

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