Welcome to the British History Podcast, my name is Jamie, and this is Episode 337, the

Rise of King Edmund Iron Sides.

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Can you feel it?

It feels like a lull before the storm.

Athol red unred is gone, and Normandy is now officially on the board, so 1066 is on

the doorstep.

But that lull is an illusion that you experience because you know what's coming next.

For the people who are living during this time though, things on the island were heating

up and they had no idea what was coming.

Instead they were dealing with a completely different problem.

And what you're about to hear is part 1 of a two-part series on one of England's best

stories that you've likely never heard.

Is the story of the Rise and Fall of King Edmund Iron Sides?

This is a story of a forgotten civil war, of a legendary warrior, and of the fall of

the line of Alfred the Great, and it's a story that starts in the North.

We tend to think about England as a national body that's always been, but at this point

in its history it was a new thing.

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