29. King Alfred the Great versus the Viking, The Alfred Jewel
Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The British Isles
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History · Fat Belly Films
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This week Neil takes us back in time to meet a king who stopped the Vikings in their tracks.
Sitting in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford is a precious golden artefact called the Alfred Jewel, which is over a thousand years old and inscribed with the words, ‘Alfred ordered me made’. This jeweller’s masterpiece tells us so much about the man who commissioned it – King Alfred the Great - a ruler whose actions had a profound effect on shaping the British Isles
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