• Ep.1 A New Beginning - King Henry the Fowler rebuilds East Francia

  • Mar 23 2024
  • Length: 33 mins
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Ep.1 A New Beginning - King Henry the Fowler rebuilds East Francia

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  • The year is 919 AD and things are not going well. The mighty empire of Charlemagne has splintered into a multitude of puny kingdoms. Its feeble rulers are being pushed around by their formidable barons. The frontiers are breached. In the north the Vikings and Danes are ransacking towns and villages along the coasts and even deep inland. In the east the Slavs are burning Hamburg. And in the south the most terrifying of them all, the Magyars, a steppe tribe like the Huns and the Mongols, are marauding all the way from Bavaria to Northern Spain.

    Cometh the time, cometh the man/woman?

    Episode Website with transcript, maps and lots more: Episode 1 - A new Beginning • History of the Germans Podcast

    The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0.

    Homepage with maps, photos, transcripts and blog: https://historyofthegermans.com/episode-1-a-new-beginning-2/

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