This Halloween marks our 10th anniversary, and we observe it by hearing the earliest written accounts of one of the most well-known pieces of medieval weird history: the Green Children of Woolpit -- and also hear the other less famous prodigies their story was originally presented alongside.

Today's Texts:

Radulphi de Coggeshall. Chronicon Anglicanum. Edited by Joseph Stevenson, Longman & Co., 1875. Google Books.

William of Newburgh. The History of William of Newburgh. The Church Historians of England, vol. IV, part II, translated by Joseph Stevenson, Seeleys, 1856, pp. 395–670. Google Books.

Chapters

00:00:00: Introduction

00:06:32: Text: from Ralph of Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum

00:15:36: Commentary

00:24:31: Text: Ch. 27 & 28 from William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum

00:35:10: Commentary

00:58:25: Riddle

01:01:13: Outro