Saxon and Norman by Amice MacDonell a Dramatic Readings Edward the Confessor is very weak and will die soon. But with no son to succeed him, who will gain the throne? The common folk and loyal Saxon barons in England want Harold, while the Norman barons and the people in Normandy, France want Duke William. They claim Edward gave William the throne. Who is right? Will Britain be Normanized? - Summary by Esther ben Simonides Cast List King Edward the Confessor: Beth Thomas Harold, Earl of Wessex: Adele de Pignerolles Gyrth, brother to Harold; Cecilia, daughter of William and Matilda: Rachel Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury: Mike Harris William, Duke of Normandy: Esther ben Simonides Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, half-brother to William: MaryAnnS Robert "Courthose", son to William and Matilda; Gytha, mother to Harold: Sonia William "Rufus", son to William and Matilda; William Malet, a Norman Baron: Tomas Peter Lanfranc, Prior of Bec: Apneia William Fitzosbern, a Norman Baron: Larry Wilson Roger of Montgomery, a Norman Baron: Newgatenovelist Hugh Margot, a Norman Monk: ToddHW A Saxon Messenger: David Olson Taillefer, a Norman Minstrel: John Burlinson A Hermit: Joseph Tabler Queen Edith, wife to Edward the Confessor, sister to Harold: Kristin Gjerløw Edith, called 'of the Swansneck': Lydia Matilda, Duchess of Normandy, wife to William: GeorgiaM Narrator: KHand Audio Edited by: Esther ben Simonides Genre(s): Historical Fiction, General, Drama Language: English eltic Medieval Music - Kingdom of Bards Adrian von Ziegler https://youtu.be/aMqOkmDoMFQ # Reading #Saxon #Audiobook

The Elder Edda (Bray Translation) Read by Expatriate Sæmund SIGFUSSON (1056 - 1133), translated by Olive BRAY (? - ?) The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the Elder Edda is the most important source for Norse mythology and legends of northern European heroes. The later "Younger" or Prose Edda, gathered or transcribed by Snorri Sturluson in about 1220 CE, is the other such source, largely drawing on and even directly quoting from the poetic material of the Elder Edda. Even the uninitiated reader of the Eddas may find them familiar in sound, rhythm, and content because of their considerable influence on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Middle Earth fantasies. Though the Bray edition is entitled "The Elder or Poetic Edda, commonly known as Sæmund's Edda," even at the time of its 1908 publication no scholar still believed that the twelfth-century Icelandic scholar Sæmundur Sigfússon had anything to do with the Poetic Edda; whoever actually compiled and transcribed these old oral myths is unknown to modern scholarship. This recording is of Part I (Mythological Poems), including elegant introductory material by translator and scholar Olive Bray. It does not include the Icelandic of the facing pages in this parallel bilingual edition. ( Expatriate) Genre(s): Mythology, Sagas, Language: English ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters: 01 Introduction, Pt. 01 (General) 02 Introduction, Pt. 02 (The Sayings of Grimnir) 03 Introduction, Pt. 03 (The Wisdom of All-Wise) 04 Introduction, Pt. 04 (The Words of the Mighty Weaver) 05 Introduction, Pt. 05 (The Words of Odin, the High One) 06 Introduction, Pt. 06 (The Lay of Hymir) 07 Introduction, Pt. 07 (The Lay of Thrym) 08 Introduction, Pt. 08 (The Story of Skirnir) 09 Introduction, Pt. 09 (Day-Spring and Menglöd) 10 Introduction, Pt. 10 (Greybeard & Thor) 11 Introduction, Pt. 11 (The Song of Rig) 12 Introduction, Pt. 12 (The Lay of Hyndla) 13 Introduction, Pt. 13 (Baldr's Dreams) 14 Introduction, Pt. 14 (Loki's Mocking) 15 Introduction, Pt. 15 (The Soothsaying of the Vala) 16 I. The Sayings of Grimnir 17 II. The Wisdom of All-Wise 18 III. The Words of the Mighty Weaver 19 IV. The Words of Odin, the High One 20 V. The Lay of Hymir 21 VI. The Lay of Thrym 22 VII. The Story of Skirnir 23 VIII. Day-Spring and Menglöd 24 IX. Greybeard & Thor 25 X. The Song of Rig 26 XI. The Vala's Shorter Soothsaying 27 XII. The Lay of Hyndla 28 XIII. Baldr's Dreams 29 XIV. Loki's Mocking 30 XV. Fragments From Snorri's Edda 31 XVI. The Soothsaying of the Vala Online Text: https://archive.org/details/elderorpoeticedd01brayuoft ---------------------------------------------------------- Thatched Villagers Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #EDDA,#Audiobook,