Astonishing Æthelstan: Michael Wood on the 10th-century king
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Is Ethelstone the Top Monarch?
The king who founded England has largely been forgotten, even by the English. You've got to construct the story out of very diffuse amount of sources. It's a picture that you can only build up by very careful sifting of all kinds of oddities and also interpreting them in an interesting way.
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