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> Nobody knows who the kings of England were in those days. Yes, lots of people do know who they were. There was no “England” in those days, but historians kno
by gregjor 6y ago
> Nobody knows who the kings of England were in those days.
Yes, lots of people do know who they were. There was no “England” in those days, but historians know the kings and queens of the kingdoms of Essex, Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, etc. that would coalesce into England later.
https://www.historyofengland.net/kings-and-queens/the-dark-ages-450-1066-introduction https://www.historyofengland.net/kings-and-queens/the-dark-a...
- WalterBright 6y agoIronically, your cite mentions King Arthur: "A West Saxon expansion westwards is halted for some years by perhaps a King Arthur one of the last Romanised Britians in England."
- gregjor 6y agoThe irony is that the little we might know about Arthur comes from written records. Perhaps king of some Britons, not king of all Britain.
- WalterBright 6y agoNot ironic at all. The more writing that was done, the more we know and don't have to guess from trash heaps, building foundations, and graves. This seems patently obvious.
- InfiniteRand 6y agoIt’s funny when I was in college the Battle of Badon = Arthur theory was very popular and I got the impression it had overtaken the let’s treat Arthur as a collection of myths school of thought, but I feel like myth school of thought has more steam these days