History of Medieval England - Thursday 6th Period: Discussion 2: Dark Ages Britain

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All right. So we touched briefly on King Arthur of gloriously fake memory, Alfred the Great who actually lived, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. Now it's time to talk.

Your homework, which should sound familiar already is to select a topic from your readings and cut and paste give me at least 100 words. Ready, steady, go.

[[OOC: OCD threads are up, go ahead.]]

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Re: HOMEWORK: ME Disc 2

[swerval_zero]

((OOC: NOT MY ACTUAL HOMEWORK, but I found it on my hard drive and couldn't resist. Wrong time period for today's homework, and slightly edited from the original to make it FH-friendly. Also, I am possibly insane.))

The Conversion of Northumbria
As told by the Venerable Bede.
Reenvisioned by Zero Hopeless-Savage.
A drama.

MISSIONARY DUDE (aka BISHOP PAULINUS): Hey. You should all be Christians.
KING EDWIN: Works for me. Let me talk to these other guys for a minute. Hey, guys, what do you think?
SOME GUY: Life...is like a sparrow. Flying into Caritas on a winter's day.
KING EDWIN: Wait. What?
SOME GUY: It is warm for a moment, and it poops on some poor student's head, and then it is gone. And cold.
KING EDWIN: Oooookay. Grand High Priest Coifi, what say you?
GRAND HIGH PRIEST: My Lord, long have I thought our religion was false and without virtue.
KING EDWIN: Wait, what?
GRAND HIGH PRIEST: Indeed, give me a stallion and arms, that I may--
KING EDWIN: Dude, swords don't grow on trees.
GRAND HIGH PRIEST: --That I may proclaim this new religion, which is clearly the one true way, to your subjects.
KING EDWIN: I'm sorry, Grand High Priest of what, exactly? I think I missed something here.
GRAND HIGH PRIEST: Oh, and we should burn all our temples, too.
KING EDWIN: Works for me!

[curtain]

Re: HOMEWORK: ME Disc 2

[swerval_zero]

((NOW WITH ACTUAL C&P HOMEWORK))

*stapled to Zero's strange little play*

Aethelred, called the Unready, succeeded to the throne after the murder of his half-brother, Edward II, the Martyr, at the age of ten. His reign was plagued by poor advice from his personal favorites and suspicions of his complicity in Edward's murder. His was a rather long and ineffective reign, which was notable for little other than the payment of the Danegeld, an attempt to buy off the Viking invaders with money. The relentless invasions by the Danish Vikings, coupled with their ever-escalating demands for more money, forced him to abandon his throne in 1013. He fled to Normandy for safety, but was later recalled to his old throne at the death of Svein Forkbeard in 1014. He died in London in 1016.