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The Raven-King - St. Oswald of Northumbria
You met Oswald in the Aidan episode — the king who knelt in the dirt and translated the gospel for his people, who broke a silver dish on Easter and gave the pieces to the poor. Now we tell the story from his side: Exile on Iona. The Battle of Heavenfield. A death on a battlefield with a prayer on his lips. But this episode goes somewhere no one expects: after Oswald dies, his story keeps going — across the sea to Luxembourg, into Bavaria, and all the way to the German-speaking Alps, where a thousand years later, farmers were still processing to his chapel and a hilariously temperamental talking raven was the star of a medieval romance.
Music used:
"Across The Fields Of Gold"
Yagull Music - Sasha Branislav Markovic, Mayu Saeki
Thursday, May 28, 2026
38 mins
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