Good article except they keep calling him a Saxon. He’d call himself Anglian, English, or just Northumbrian.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I admit I haven’t seen this show, but I saw the trailer where they were talking about like, protecting their nation, and might’ve called it Britain, or something, but wasn’t this too early in history for them to be thinking in those terms?
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Replying to @robothyenas
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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Replying to @robothyenas
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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
But if they said Britain then that’s nonsense. Britain was just a term for the island.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I might've misremebered, but something about the way they framed the us vs. invaders seemed REALLY anachronistic, and it was something like that
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Well they kinda did frame it like that back then. It was an us vs them attitude that is present in the source material. The Vikings were framed as a strange hostile foreign force (was way more nuanced than that but it’s how the elites framed it).
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