Ich bin nun endlich dazu gekommen, das großartige Buch "Alfred The Great - The King who made England" von Justin Pollard zu lesen. Und das hat mich inspiriert, meine Erkenntnisse daraus gleich mal video-technisch festzuhalten und etwas über König Alfred zu erzählen... Trinkgeldbecher: https://ko-fi.com/alespickar Mehr über Ales Pickar: http://www.pickar.de ------------------------------------------------------------- ## Quellen: ## Justin Pollard: "Alfred The Great - The Man Who Made England" (Bernard Cornwell, 2005) Rudolf Simek: "Die Wikinger" (CH Beck, 1998) Will & Ariel Durant: "The Story of Civilization", Volume IV - "The Age Of Faith" (Simon & Schuster, 1950) ------------------------------------------------------------- ## Musik: ## "Heavy Interlude" written and recorded by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (BY 4.0) Artist: http://incompetech.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------- ## Bilder: ## "Alfred the Great" sculpted by George S. Stuart, photo: Peter d'Aprix (Quelle: Wikipedia, Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0) "Alfred the Great", 18th century portrait of Alfred by Samuel Woodforde (1763-1817, gemeinfrei) Portrait of Justin Pollard (Quelle: https://www.unitedagents.co.uk, (c) Justin Pollard) Edmund Blair Leighton: "The Boyhood Of Alfred The Great (1913, Kirklees Museums and Galleries) John Amagh: "Chesil Beach, the Fleet and the Isle of Portland, from the north-west over Abbotsbury" (Source: Wikipedia, Public Domain) "Sir Robert Bruce Cotton" painting by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (Quelle: Wikipedia, gemeinfrei) "Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury", artist unknown "William Camden", painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger "Beowulf preparing to cut off the head of the monster Grendel", illustration from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, 1910. "Charlemagne at dinner", by Talbot Master (1444-45) "Imperial Coronation of Charlemagne", by Friedrich Kaulbach, 1861 "Europe around 814", map by Stolichanin (Quelle: Wikipedia, (c) CC BY-SA 3.0) "Idealbild Karls des Großen", gemalt 1513 von Albrecht Dürer im Auftrag seiner Vaterstadt Nürnberg “Viking Raid”, Gemälde von Ferdinand Leeke, 1901 "St Cuthbert's Isle from the air, with Holy Island behind", photo & (c) by Mick Aston, 2000 "Vikings coming ashore", illustration by F. Calzada "Longship on Tjängvide image stone, 800–1099" (Photo: Bengt A. Lundberg/SHM, Quelle: Wikipedia, (c) CC BY 2.5 se "Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island". photo by Matthew Hunt (Quelle: Wikipedia, Copyright: CC BY 2.0) Egbert, King of the West Saxons, First Monarch of all England, by Wa. Lewis, line engraving (probably 18th century, NPG D23569, © National Portrait Gallery, London / CC - NY NC ND 3.0) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WLqXHt9Tc

Trinkgeldbecher: https://ko-fi.com/alespickar Über "Strange Fruit", den Protestsong gegen das Lynchen. See also: http://www.democracynow.org/2005/6/14/strange_fruit_anthem_of_the_anti MEHR ÜBER ALES PICKAR: http://www.pickar.de BILDER: "Die Gartenlaube" / Haberfeldtreiben, Originalzeichnung von Oskar Gräf, 1895 "John Meints tarred and feathered in Minnesota" - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration "A black American man killed by hanging in a lynching in 1925" Archive of the National Photo Company - Library of Congress "The lynching of Laura Nelson in Okemah, Oklahoma on May 25, 1911" Postcard by G. H. Farnum. Mechanical reproductions at: http://www.nps.gov "Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930" Fair use copyright "Slave trader's business in Atlanta, Georgia, 1864" Photo by George N. Barnard "Billie Holiday at the Downbeat club, a jazz club in New York City." Photographed by William P. Gottlieb (United States Library of Congress's Music Division under the digital ID gottlieb.04211) "Billie Holiday and her dog Mister, New York, c. June 1946" Photographed by William P. Gottlieb (United States Library of Congress's Music Division under the digital ID gottlieb.04271) "Billie_Holiday_1949.jpg" by Carl van Vechten (1880–1964, Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress) "Elisabeth Freeman" by Bain News Service, publisher (1913, source: Flickr Commons project) "Elisabeth Freeman in 1913" by Bain News Service (This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.12470) "Peter or Gordon, a whipped slave" Photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863 (National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the ARC Identifier 533232) "Washington hanging from a tree after being severely burned" - Published by the NAACP after their investigation of the lynching in The Crisis Vol. 12, supplement to No. 3: The Waco Horror. Library of Congress. "The crowd preparing to lynch Washington" - by Fred Gildersleeve (1881-1958) - Original publication: Published by the NAACP after their investigation of the lynching in The Crisis Vol. 12, supplement to No. 3: The Waco Horror Library of Congress "Washington's body hanging" by Fred Gildersleeve (1881-1958) - Original publication: Published by the NAACP after their investigation of the lynching in The Crisis Vol. 12, supplement to No. 3. Now: Library of Congress. "Two owners holding pistols against a slave" - from Library of Congress "Milt Gabler, Herbie Hill, Lou Blum, Jack Crystal. Commodore Record Shop, August 1947". Photography by William P. Gottlieb (William P. Gottlieb collection at the Library of Congress) "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg", Roger Higgins, photographer fr ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHZ0wvmAEg