| Description | The speakers on this programme are not identified.
Track 1: Farming; a reading; Alfred's Jewel and the Lindisfarne gospels; 2.51 mins
Track 2: How Wales got its name; Alfred's Jewel; Anglo-Saxon relationship with the sea; fishing; the Anglo-Saxon farmer; the meaning of 'wyrd', 3.14 mins
Track 3: Readings; drinking feasts; the home; the 'three and a half plough lands of Praybourne (or 'Braybourne' or 'Graybourne')'? 3.29 mins
Track 4: Development during the Saxon period; the Vikings; 'Grendel'; Saxon place names, 3.31 mins
Track 5: Differences betweens the Celts and the Saxons; the Domesday book; (Hroðgar?);oaths, 3.11 mins
Track 6: King Kinniwull? (the accent of the speaker and the quality of the recording make it difficult to ascertain exactly what is being said); unidentified people recite historical literature; unidentified person talks about Catsfield?; unidentified person talks about the 'three and a half plough lands of Praybourne (or 'Braybourne' or 'Graybourne')'? 2.47 mins
Track 7: Readings; 'Grendel'; historical cures for 'poisonous swellings', sickness and warts, 2.22 mins
Track 8: Magic, folk medicine and Christianity; the 'new worship of God', i.e. Christianity; reading from a historical will, 3.42 mins
Track 9: Reading; the Christian story and Christ as an epic figure; discussion about historical literature, 2.55 mins
Track 10: The 'observance of Easter'; 2.29 mins
Track 11: The poet Caedman, the significance of poetry and the attitude of the Celts; a reading of a riddle relating to an ox hide; a 'full man', 3.06 mins
Track 12: Reading; a discussion about slavery in the Anglo-Saxon period; Anglo-Saxon courts; churls not having access to the courts nor the right to bear weapons; Anglo-Saxon slaves not being allowed access to the courts, 3.18 mins
Track 13: Reading; the freeing of slaves; Viking attacks on England, 3.09 mins
Track 14: Reading; King Alfred; a reading about translating books from Latin, 3.58 mins
Track 15: King Alfred, the Norman Conquest, and other historical literature, 3.35 mins
Track 16: Chivalry; the 'three estates' of the clergy, the lords and warriors and those who work on the earth; the coat of arms of England, Sir Phillip Darcy and Sir Richard Lovell, 3.13 mins
Track 17: The coat of arms of Sir 'Geoffrey Canwell' and Sir Robert de Holland; England after the Norman conquest; the retinue of the Earl Marshall at the field of Agincourt, 3.31 mins
Track 18: A reading; the coat of arms of Sir Adam de (Evringem?) and Sir (Eurean de Saintpierre?); the Norman Conquest; armour, 3.46 mins
Track 19: Armour; the coat of arms of Sir John de (Lyle?); the uses of horses in war and the meaning of chivalry literally as 'one who rides'; 3.31 mins
Track 20: King Stephen and his 19 year reign; Norman castles, churches and cathedrals; torture, 2.08 mins
Total: 1.03.48
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1of2 KF573E0536680 |