Anyone who's interested in seeing how this played out in a TV series: The Last Kingdom did a great job covering it and it was very entertaining

Aethelstan was buried in my hometown, alongside those from his army at the battle of Brunanburh, a very small town called Malmesbury. His remains are lost, but the memorial is in the Abbey still. Direct descendants of his army who still live locally have a society called “commoners” as they still collectively own an area of common land that Athelstan gave to those men!

Imagine having such a badass name as Eric Bloodaxe.

English guy: ''Finally, free from Viking rule.''

Northern English words, names of towns and villages and structures are a surprising mix of Scandinavian and ango saxon words. Fascinating nation

Disappointingly, this is not taught in English schools, which is just ridiculous.

I'm from the Philippines but dang I love the History of England and Vikings. The first shows I watched are The Vikings and The Last Kingdom

As a Brit, this is already way more than I learned in History class

After watching vikings and being interested in what happened there and how it was formed… I needed this information.. this is an amazing channel

These quick Knowledgias are Great. Simple. You can always learn more. Some of the Comments are Tremendous for the People living in the mentioned Areas bring us the Oral & Archeological History that gets lost in time. Thanks.

Angles, Saxons and JUTES. I'm from Kent and it was mainly the Jutes that colonized this area.