71. England v Denmark

“Beowulf is the kind of the greatest epic in Old English. It features Beowulf, a Geat from southern Sweden, who goes to see a king called Hrothgar, who is the king of the Danes.”

“In the TV adaptation of The Last Kingdom, they have a great scene where he's kind of... I think they hang him up in a church or something.”

“Dr. Francis Young has written an entire book on St. Edmund and who once took me to bury St. Edmund's and showed me the site of a tennis court.”

“James Shapiro in his book on Shakespeare in 1606 suggests that this was the inspiration for that passage in Antony and Cleopatra.”

“Dan Jackson, author of Northumbrians, who appeared on our North-South Divide episode, discusses Anglo-Danish relations during the Civil War.”

“Hans Christian Andersen, author of The Little Mermaid, statue of which stands in Copenhagen to this day. He comes to England when his stories get published in English on a kind of book tour.”