The Last Stand of Paganism in Early England | Penda of Mercia

When the anglo Saxons invaded England in the 5th century, 4 majour kingoms would rise from the ashes, these were, notthumbria, Mercia, Wessex & East Anglia. The anglo Saxons who were originally pagans would would mostly convert to Christianity, with the pagan kings often converting for political reasons such as the imposition by a more powerful king, to gain legitimacy or the chritian promise of gaining immortality upon onces death. One Man who resisted however, was Penda the King of Mercia.
Described as the last great pagan warrior-king among the Anglo-Saxons & a most warlike man of the royal race of the mercians,
his destruction sounded the death of English paganism as a political & religious ideology and thus, all of Englands Kingdoms would fall under the spell of Christianity with their original pagan traditions, customs and way of life fading from living memory. This is the tale of Penda, the killer of Kings, a man whose will was forged in war and who was unbending till the end, being the last Anglo-saxon King to die a pagan. It was he who forged Mercia into a mighty Kingdom and it was he who allowed Mercia to become a dominant Kingdom which would go on to define England’s political landscape for centuries to come. This is his story.

00:00 The Last English Pagan Warrior King
01:42 Ancestry & Early Life
05:08 Penda Kills King Edwin the Bretwalda (ruler of Britain)
08:22 Penda the Warlord
10:35 Of Penda's Pagan Beliefs
13:42 The Battle of Maserfield
16:43 Dominating the Other Anglo-Saxon Kings
20:34 The Death of the Last Pagan King of England
24:45 Legacy

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