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3 pointspepys8mo ago2 comments

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jamesgill8mo ago· 1 in thread

There's a long history of mythologizing (and rooting for) the Saxons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxonism_in_the_19th_cen...

wrp8mo ago

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.

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