Would this have been the prevailing sentiment towards Anglo-Saxon culture and history back in the 1930s when the Sutton Hoo excavation was taking place?
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So the problem with just showing C.W. Phillips saying they had art and culture over the "savage" Vikings plays heavily into that as it does not appropriately reckon with the racist and nationalist implications of those statements.
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But I find it unlikely they would have seen them as "better" than Romans...since Rome is still held up as an ideal of "western civ".
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