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Vikings - Blood & Legend

Vikings - Blood & Legend

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Vikings did not vanish quietly. Two hundred longships once filled the harbor at Dublin, and then, in the span of a single generation, the fleet, the king, and the city these vikings built were gone—swallowed so completely that historians spent a thousand years arguing whether Amlaíb had ever existed at all. That kind of disappearance is the engine of this show.

Blood & Legend rebuilds one true story per episode from the ground up: court records, saga fragments, burial mounds, coastal geology, and the occasional stray coal seam in Rhode Island that should not exist unless vikings crossed an ocean no map admits was crossed. There is no host chatting between segments. Instead you get a full, narrated reconstruction of a reign, a betrayal, or a vanishing, told the way it likely happened, with the uncertainty left in where the sources demand it.

The material moves well beyond vikings mythology into the machinery of actual power: viking sagas that turn out to be political propaganda, a Kentish king who reforges an entire legal code after burning his own throne, an Armenian ruler ambushed unarmed at his own banquet, an English king built into legend and then erased from memory within a century. Expect royal scandals, poisoned successions, saints made from broken bones, and the ordinary cruelty required to hold a crown in an age when kings and queens ruled by force and died by it. This is vikings history and its neighboring courts treated as forensic case files, not folklore.

If you want kingdoms that rise on vikings longships and collapse on a single bad decision at a banquet table, subscribe now. New reconstructions post weekly, each one a closed case—one throne, one downfall, one story told all the way to its ending, one more chapter in the long, bloody record of the vikings.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT 世界
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  • The thirteen silver pennies that erased Ceolwulf II from the record

    The thirteen silver pennies that erased Ceolwulf II from the record
    2026/10/30
    A metal-detectorist uncovers thirteen silver pennies that show Alfred of Wessex seated equal with Ceolwulf II-what did it cost him?

    The thirteen silver pennies that erased Ceolwulf II from the record

    In this episode, we follow how a 2015 coin find in Oxfordshire reopened a debate about Ceolwulf II, Mercian kingship, and Alfred of Wessex. The episode traces the evidence in coins and charters and asks what the coinage tells us about power, memory, and who shaped the written record.

    Person: Ceolwulf II
    Event: Thirteen silver coins found in Oxfordshire, 2015
    Date: 874-879 (Ceolwulf’s reign and disappearance)
    Location: Repton (Viking winter camp) and Watlington (coin find)
    Topic: Coin iconography and competing historical narratives

    - A metal-detectorist unearthed thirteen thumbnail-sized silver pennies in Oxfordshire in 2015.
    - Each coin portrays two crowned, robed kings seated side by side, with Alfred of Wessex shown as a peer.
    - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, compiled under Alfred’s authority, calls Ceolwulf “an unwise king’s thane.”
    - Surviving Mercian charters show Burgred’s thegns and bishops witnessing Ceolwulf’s legal acts, indicating an operative court.
    - Burgred fled to Rome after the Great Heathen Army wintered at Repton, and Ceolwulf appears in records from 874 until his silence around 879.

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    22 分
  • The nine days in January that cost Æthelred his lasting fame

    The nine days in January that cost Æthelred his lasting fame
    2026/10/29
    A king wins a great West Saxon victory on a chalk ridge in January 871 but dies nine days later - what did it cost him and the memory of his reign?

    The nine days in January that cost Æthelred his lasting fame

    In this episode, we follow the arc of Æthelred I's brief but consequential rule: his promise to preserve the kingdom, the chalk-ridge victory against the Great Heathen Army, and the sudden death that left his legacy fragile. How did nine days in January 871 reshape which brother history remembered?

    Person: Æthelred I
    Event: Battle on a chalk ridge and death nine days later in January 871
    Related figure: Alfred, his younger brother
    Surviving artefacts: 152 silver coins stamped by 32 moneyers
    Context: Great Heathen Army invasion of southern England, winter 870-871

    - Æthelred signed royal charters as filius regis from 854 and ruled as king after Æthelberht's death in 865.
    - He promised the witan and Alfred that the throne and realm would pass intact at his death.
    - The Great Heathen Army occupied Reading around 28 December 870 and built earthworks between the Thames and the Kennet.
    - In January 871 Æthelred broke the Great Heathen Army on a chalk ridge in what chroniclers frame as the greatest West Saxon victory in a generation.
    - Only 152 silver coins and scattered documents survive as material traces of Æthelred's six years holding the line against Viking forces.

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    This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.
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    22 分
  • The carved disc that cost a Norse sailor his way home

    The carved disc that cost a Norse sailor his way home
    2026/10/28
    A Norse sailor holds a seven-centimeter carved disc in Greenland and risks everything to navigate the North Atlantic - what did it cost him?

    The carved disc that cost a Norse sailor his way home

    In this episode, we trace a small carved softwood disc unearthed in 1948 and follow how researchers decoded its notches as a possible sun-compass used by Norse mariners. The episode covers the artifact’s discovery, its physical details, and the archaeological and historical context that links it to vanished Greenland settlements - could a simple piece of wood have steered people across 700 miles of ocean?

    Person: Christen Vebæk
    Date: 1948
    Location: Uunartoq, Greenland
    Period: late tenth to fifteenth century
    Topic: carved softwood disc interpreted as a Norse sun-compass

    - A seven-centimeter carved softwood disc was pulled from beneath collapsed stone in the ruins of a Benedictine convent at Uunartoq.
    - The disc bears thirty-two triangular notches-eight per quadrant-matching the layout of a traditional mariner’s compass rose.
    - Scored lines and a central pinhole suggest a shadow-casting device calibrated to the sun’s arc at solstices and equinoxes.
    - Microscopic study in 1990 showed lines were double-traced, indicating deliberate, durable engraving by a craftsperson.
    - The disc was catalogued by Danish archaeologist Christen Vebæk and later studied by historians like Carl V. Sølver as researchers tried to link it to the vanished Norse Greenland colony.

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    22 分
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