The True Story of Guthrum | The Last Kingdom

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9th century Britain was a time of heroes, conquerors and bloodshed. The Vikings and Saxons were at each other’s throats, with the Saxons resisting the raids and wars waged by the heathen Norsemen. Guthrum was a Viking war lord who would go on to lead a fragment of the great heathen army and his very name would make Saxon Kings tremble in fear. Guthrum would fight alongside the sons of the legendary Ragnar Lothbrok and would be scourge of Wessex, bringing the kingdom to its knees. This is his story.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Chapter 1: Early life
02:23 Chapter 2: The Great Heathen Army
04:23 Chapter 3: Guthrum takes Wessex
06:40 Chapter 4: A fool's hope
08:02 Chapter 5: The battle of Edington
09:05 Chapter 6: Guthrum's conversion to Christianity

All Credit for the Music goes to: Savfk - Music
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Sources:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/down...

The Great Heathen Army: Why the Great Heathen Failed to
Conquer the Whole of Anglo-Saxon England
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1105&context=graduatetheses

THE DANISH HISTORY, BOOKS I-IX by Saxo Grammaticus:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1150/1150-h/1150-h.htm