The Anglo-Saxons: The Making of England: 410-1066 (Marc Morris)

Of the Anglo-Saxons, who not long ago ruled the world. They are now brought low, but we can learn from what, once upon a time, made them great.
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"England, fabled land of legend and destiny, is over. When you combine a degraded native populace unwilling to replenish itself with a ruling class that is among the most evil and stupid in history, which along with other malignant attacks on those it rules eagerly imports endless alien invaders in order replace the native population, against whom that population is unwilling or unable to fight back, you get-the End. Unlike in the lands currently known as America, in England a solution to renew what was once a proud and free people seems impossible. We should shed a tear, then, and look beyond. And also look backward, at the beginnings of England, sixteen hundred years ago, through the prism of this excellent book.." . . .

[@GodsOwnPrototype]

Where There's A Will There's A Way
England Lives & Could Stand Again

[@candidlens]

Battle of Maldon poem is worth reading. Have seen it in an anthology called Earliest English Poems, which beautifully evokes this world. Their art and metal smithing was also of a high quality.

[@TheGeezer30]

If one watching this, including Mr Haywood would like to read a very good exposition and investigation on the more opaque History of the period 400 - 600 should read John Morris' "Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles 350 to 650".
A brilliantly put together piece of scholarship that encompasses the civilisational changes of the whole British Isles in that Epoch.

[@candidlens]

A renaissance of Anglo-Saxon consciousness (in it's actual richness, not the renaissance fair variety) could be a good thing for so called white Americans in search of a deeper sense of identity. There's an aesthetic there that many would find natural and familiar.

[@JoeHeine]

What does James Lindsay say about this?

[@CharlesHaywood]

He chants, in a burbling tone, "neo-Hegelian dialectic, neo-Hegelian dialectic."

[@Epicrandomness1111]

Vortigern is a romano welsh king of the britons who invites Hengest and Horsa in as the first saxon rulers. In Geoffrey of Monmouths account Vortigern usurps Arthurs family before his uncle and father Uther take back the throne and halt the saxons for a little while.

[@CharlesHaywood]

Yeah. I phrased that wrong.

[@justinawblair]

I read this a year ago but I think Vortigern would have been Romano-Celtic but not Welsh. This event would have been on east coast, likely, close to where the first ships were coming in from the mainland.
Hengest and Horsa were likely semi-mythological but portraying a longer event happening. There is a mythological motif in Germanic cultures of twin warriors who are horse riders. If I recall, Horsa just means "horse". Glad some other people read this book. I could be wrong about all that.

[@TheGeezer30]

@@justinawblair In that epoch Welsh/Celt are the same thing. Welsh is what the Angles and Saxons called the Celtic Britons they were fighting for dominance with.

[@justinawblair]

Thanks. I guess I'm saying, didn't the word Welsh denote Celts farther to the West and not necessarily as influenced by the Roman world?@@TheGeezer30

[@TheGeezer30]

@@justinawblair No. The word is an English word and was used to describe the Celts. Now of course over time, as the Angles and Saxons reached their most westerly extent of conquest and the boundaries of their nascent kingdoms, which roughly still coincides with the modern Anglo-welsh border, the Words Welsh, and Wales came to denote, for the English, those lands and peoples not conquered beyond.
The Romans conquered all the Celts south of Hadrians Wall. Only very few areas where under minimal control, namely the Pembroke Peninsular, and Cornwall peninsular.