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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I genuinely don’t know to what extent those who worked on the period considered it a ‘dark ages’ and to what extent that was a label imposed on it from outside. Seems like cognitive dissonance to unearth Sutton Hoo and still think in those terms, but obvs I speak with hindsight
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Also, people in the 1930s were not unaware of the weaponization of racial purity narratives. What different people thought about it varies, but it was right there.
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