Bosco Hogan stars as King Aethelred II in Episode 1 of Vikings: Valhalla Season 1. Pic credit: Netflix/Patrick Redmond The first season of Netflix’s new Viking Age drama series, Vikings: Valhalla, ...

We usually think of opera as a serious idiom that dramatizes the lives of illustrious characters. An obscure 11 th-century king, known—if at all—only through an obscure text, and at that for his ...

This latest addition to the Penguin Monarchs series is a "gripping account of England under siege, with wave upon wave of Vikings wrecking all attempts to stop them". Caroline Sanderson is a ...

Near the end of his life, AEthelred was driven into exile by the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, who crowned himself English king. Forkbeard's son Cnut ("Canute the Great") then ruled over England as ...

The upcoming sequel series will be moving from History and Amazon Prime Video in the UK, to popular streaming service Netflix later this year. 100 years after the events of the first Vikings series, a ...

The Last Kingdom is a popular historical drama airing on Netflix and is based on The Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell. One of the main characters in the series is Aethelred (played by Toby Regbo), ...