'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - Episode 13
In this episode Ellen and I talk about one of the more puzzling events in the history of England’s Viking Wars, the St. Brice's Davy Massacre. In the year 1002, King Æthelred "the Unready" issued an order that on St. Brice's Day all the Danes dwelling in England were to be killed in a "most just extermination." Writers from the late eleventh century to the present day--including the scriptwriters for the recent Netflix series, "Vikings: Valhalla"--have depicted what occurred on 13 November 1002 as an indiscriminate slaughter of innocent men, women, and children. In their accounts the St. Brice's Day Massacre was a medieval attempt at ethnic cleansing.
But was it? Archaeologists and academic historians have their doubts. Please join Ellen and me in our exploration of the blackest mark on the reputation of one of England’s unluckiest kings.
The host of 'tis but a scratch is Richard Abels, a professor emeritus of history at the United States Naval Academy, Richard is a specialist in the military and political institutions of Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
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