The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the Black Sea--new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html …pic.twitter.com/SYxXUrw31i
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the Black Sea--new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html …pic.twitter.com/SYxXUrw31i
Bogdan Serai, poss church of St Nicholas+Augustine of Canterbury, built+used by English Varangians in Constantinoplepic.twitter.com/eIxijXXwlU
Tombstones of 'English Varangians' apparently still found nearby in 1865, but were destroyed: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qocKfNid3SUC&lpg=PA147&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/YE2vTvQneV
Gold coin of Michael VII (1071–8), in whose reign the English Varangians are thought to have arrived; found N.Yorks: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/388886 …pic.twitter.com/xd8rBstWIM
An anecdote concerning a fight between Hardigt, a man sent by the 'Oriental Angli' to the Emperor, and some lions at Constantinople, from the Laon chronicle account of Nova Anglia: https://ojs.lib.uom.gr/index.php/BalkanStudies/article/download/1145/1164 …pic.twitter.com/osKlsWca3W
An embassy from the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos to Henry I of England, c.1100–1118, recorded in the Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis—the person sent was one Wulfric of Lincoln, thought to be one of the former Anglo-Saxon emigrants… https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pvTl0cljWyEC …pic.twitter.com/uklcDo6U5v
Thanks for sharing this source material with its references to the English Varangians/Oriental Angli.
I hope it's of interest :) I still tend to use Twitter as a personal scrapbook as much as anything else, hence why I like threading things together for future reference! :)
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