Well, the language did change significantly after the Norman conquest. Alfred's era Old English is almost completely unintelligible to anyone who knows Modern English. Knwing some German or some Scandinavian language might help more with reading Old English than knowing modern English.

Well, English is not my first language. Thanks for correction, I guess.

The main achievement of Alfred and his descendants was to create a unified England out of the ashes left by the Viking invasion. Alfred is one of the most important (if not THE most important) English kings ever. Without him England would simply not exist today.

Retrospectively, every scene with him is a comedy gold, even his pathetic attempt at a coup that was so ridiculous you could hear every Saxon in Wessex facepalming himself.

The Britons are the Celtic people who lived in Britain before Romans.

A lovely sort of Monty Python reference in this episode:

He's not portrayed as a tyrant. Cornwell's Alfred is very smart but very pious and that's his weakness. Some of the Saxon victories in the books and on the TV show are due to the actions of the main hero of the story, which is Uhtred, but that's why it's called historical fiction. Alfred still has the grand idea of…

I'll miss Ubba. He made Floki from Vikings look like a perfectly sane individual.

Alfred wants to tame Uhtred, because Uhtred might be useful to him at some point. However, Uhtred is much less important to Alfred's ambitions than Uhtred seems to think, so even if Alfred doesn't believe Odda the younger, Uhtred behaving like a barbarian and showing no respect for anyone (and especially not for…

I don't think so. The cartel was mentioned a few times after that, but I don't remember any consequences of the CIA reveal.

To be honest, the first 3-4 seasons of SoA were good. It started to go off the rails in S4 finale when we discover than the Mexican cartel people are really CIA agents and they need Sons to move weapons for some really idiotic plot reasons, through some idiotic smuggling scheme, just because Sutter needed a reason to…

Are you familiar with Baeux Tapestry memes? This is what this show sounds like.

Dexter's series finale got a very deserving one.

Sutter can write gun battles. Too bad there are no guns in 14th century.

It's really amazing how this show fails at everything. It's amazing that it got greenlighted and shown.

I usually listen to some My Dying Bride songs after an episode of Leftovers, just to cheer myself up.

The twist of this season will be Carrie discovering that the documents that were stolen contained the information about Jack Bauer. The Russians hold him in a secret prison in Berlin and CIA knows and allows it. Then she and Quinn will free Jack and the three of them will go on a rampage against Russians, again.

I love it when this show goes full 24. Russians, Mossad, secret CIA operation, all-powerful hackers … More of this please.

A quote from the book:

Odda the Younger is only slightly less pathetic than Aethelwold.