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Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king

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Aldous Althostin - A Very Interesting Guy

Althostin is England's Carolingian king, I would say. He was a Norman, had a Norman father and an English mother. And so he's like a generation or two after the Norman conquest. There was still this common opinion in the 12th century that Althostin was this interesting Carolingian style.

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