was conceived here. if you look around, you can see the castle was built in the 13th century, and this is the courtyard of the castle built by richard, earl of cornwall. if you look further into the distance, you can see it was once connected by land. there is now a bridge. erosion is nothing new here. they have been fighting the elements ever since the castle was built. the reason we are here is because english heritage, the charity that manages most of the castles, forts and walls around england s coastline, are raising the alarm. they are saying they are losing land at an alarming rate due to erosion and climate change. because the sea level is rising, the waves are bigger and hitting the coast harder and the land is disappearing more rapidly. they say they need more money to put in sea
that king charles iii met his privy counsel. who are his privy counsel? the privy counsel are the king s most senior advisers. it goes back to the 13th century, and in the middle ages it was the equivalent of what today we call a cabinet. and in the middle ages there were often contested claimants to the crown. think of your shakespeare history plays, and so the purpose of the counsel was for that to be recognized and proclaimed by all those present and those present were senior politicians, senior judges and also the high commissioners, the ambassadors from the 14 other countries around the world where charles is also now king and head of state. so our viewers would have
from the writings of scriptures from the 13th century, and here we are starting to push it further back in time, even more than four or 500 years. this is still a work in progress and we have hardly dusted off the dirt. now vindelev, here, is some kind of a central power place, there is no question about it. it has never been on a map before, we always thought of an early iron age rich centre some 100 kilometres to the east. so was this the centre? and the other place a periphery? we have to go in and rethink the whole period here and the whole formation of the danish kingdoms. i am very overwhelmed. i still don t understand the unpredictable and i unforeseen luck that hit me.
god of the vikings. here we have something new also in terms of religion, the old norse religion, because we know only that from the writings of scriptures from the 13th century, and here we are starting to push it further back in time, even more than four or 500 years. this is still a work in progress and we have hardly dusted off the dirt. now vindelev, here, is some kind of a central power place, there is no question about it. it has never been on a map before, we always thought of an early iron age rich centre some 100 kilometres to the east. so was this the centre? and the other place a periphery? we have to go in and rethink the whole period here and the whole formation of the danish kingdoms.
the most rare inscription on this find is the one where the god odin is probably mentioned. that would be, to my knowledge, the first time you ever had that. odin is the supreme god of the vikings. here we have something new also in terms of religion, the old norse religion, because we know only that from the writings of scriptures from the 13th century, and here we are starting to push it further back in time, even more than four or 500 years. this is still a work in progress and we have hardly dusted off the dirt. now vindelev, here, is some kind of a central power place, there is no question about it. it has never been on a map before, we always thought of an early iron age rich centre some 100 kilometres to the east. so was this the centre? and the other place