Good article except they keep calling him a Saxon. He’d call himself Anglian, English, or just Northumbrian.
Ehhh kingdoms were a thing, and to protect them was also a thing. Alfred the Great made a big thing about defining the English at this point and that this was their land. But Britain wasn’t a nation so no, that part isn’t accurate.
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okay, so I'm not going crazy
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To be clear though at this time there were “nations” although it would be false to say there is a continuous line from them to now. If they said protecting England at the time, that isn’t anachronistic as England was used to describe the kingdoms the English resided in.
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