i wouldn't even be mad, i just want to know
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
the early anglo-saxon kings all had weird names like "sea-bird" and "westerfalcon" and "person hostage"
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
so i'm pretty sure, if they were real people, they gave themselves these names.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
they might not be real though. but whoever invented them or w/e had the time of their LIFE.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I can see the bird ones, those are noble. But the hostage one? Can we chalk this up to drunk monks?
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @civilwarbore
sadly i doubt we can blame monks for that one. it might have something to do with the fact that royal children were given as hostages
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
to other kingdoms, and raised. kind of like fosterage but with hostility i guess. they would be afforded the treatment of a noble but...
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
...not necessarily as a helpful thing for the child or the child's family, but to raise them in your own image or something
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @civilwarbore
but why have the father (Uihtgils) of the two founding individuals of the anglo-saxons, (hengest and horsa) be a hostage?
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unless it's metaphorical for something. i mean hengest and horsa mean...horse and horse so who knows.
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