# Episode 112: Northern Messenger

An episode of [The History of English Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/538608536), 8 Jun 2018, 1 h 00 min.

Audio: https://media.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/content.blubrry.com/historyofenglish/Ep112-Northern-Messenger.mp3

Map Prepared by Louis Henwood (Click Map for Larger Image) At the dawn of the 14th century, Edward I was forced to deal with a popular uprising in Scotland. At the same time, a poet in northern England composed the oldest surviving poem in the Northern dialect of Middle English called the Cursor Mundi. In this episode, we turn our attention to northern England and Scotland, and we examine the unique features of this northernmost dialect of Middle English. TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 112

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