Emma: The Twice-Crowned Queen: England in the Viking Age

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An engaging biography of the 11th-century English queen who married two English kings and gave birth to 2 more.

In 1002, a good looking 18-year-old named Emma, the half-Danish sister of the Duke of Normandy and a descendant of Vikings, sailed to England to be the queen of Ethelred the Unready, who needed a Norman alliance against Viking raiders. The political and marital career on which Emma embarked was once to be unique for an English queen. Before it was once over she would have married two kings, Ethelred and the Danish Canute, and would have given birth to 2 more, Edward the Confessor and Hardecanute. From her home in Winchester, the Saxon capital, Emma operated as a significant political figure in her own right. Her writings suggest that she was once a Danish nationalist who wished to peer England joined with Viking Denmark. But, in the long run, it was once her great-nephew, William the Conqueror, who would come to a decision the destiny of England in 1066. Emma’s queenship stood on the meeting point of three cultures of the early Middle Ages in England: Saxon, Viking and Norman. This study of her reign, according to latest writings and the work of up to date scholars, provides a picture of a brutal yet pious era.

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