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The Battle of Hastings Isn't Over
(unherd.com)
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pepys
230 days ago
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There's a long history of mythologizing (and rooting for) the Saxons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxonism_in_the_19th_cen...
wrp
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There is an even longer history of denigration of the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes and mythologizing the Normans, but 11th century animosities were a different phenomenon that the modern British use of those groups as political symbols.