Athelred

Question 1

Sermo Lupi date

Answer 1

1014, Wulfstan

Question 2

Quotes from Sermo Lupi

Answer 2

‘monstrous taxes’ compared to ‘devastation and famine, burning and bloodshed’

Question 3

Battle of Pinhoe

Answer 3

1001

Question 4

Leaders at the battle of Pinhoe

Answer 4

‘Kola, the king’s high reeve, and Eadsige, the king’s reeve’

Question 5

Wulfstan archbishop of York

Answer 5

by 1002

Question 6

Agnus Dei

Answer 6

1009

Question 7

The Battle of Maldon

Answer 7

August 991

Question 8

St. Brice’s Day Masacre

Answer 8

1002

Question 9

Rhetorical flourishes of the ASC

Answer 9

‘but alas!’ 999
‘effected nothing’ 999

Question 10

waste of resources

Answer 10

999 ASC ‘in the end these expeditions by both sea and land served no purpose but to vex the people, to waste their treasure, and to strengthen their enemies.’

Question 11

Battle of Maldon on tribute

Answer 11

‘for tribute they will give you spears, poisoned point and ancient sword’

Question 12

Cost of tribute

Answer 12

994 - £16,000
1007 - £36,000

Question 13

Canterbury tribute

Answer 13

994, ABoC Sigeric asked bishop Aescwig of Dorchester for 90 pounds of silver and 200 mancuses to pay the Danes, in exchange for land. Very early.

Question 14

Law against desertion

Answer 14

1008 - death if the king was present, 120 shilling fine if he wasn’t

Question 15

one coin hoards

Answer 15

24 hoards which have 90% or more of the most recent coinage - Rory Naismith

Question 16

Olaf confirmed

Answer 16

994, Ælfhere, near Andover

Question 17

Army Pinhoe

Answer 17

‘with what army they could gather’
‘the English army’
‘an immense army was gathered […] of people of Dorset and of Somerset’

Question 18

Wulfstan on loyalty

Answer 18

there has been little loyalty among men