Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, Dane-geld.
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away..."
From the show:
The Gardener's Year, Karel Capek
On this day: 10th August, 991 AD, the Anglo-Saxons failed to turn back a Viking invasion at the Battle of Maldon. The defeat leads King Ethelred to pay the first "Dane-geld" – 3,300kg of silver in this case – in an attempt to buy off the victors
On this day, 10th August, 1856, William Willett was born in Farnham, the builder whose pamphlet proposing Daylight Saving Time would bring the idea to British attention
Music to wake you up – Too Darn Hot, sung by Ella Fitzgerald
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