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adger
7y ago
Normandy is a small region in the north east of France. Brittany is a small region in the north west of France. Some Vikings were exiled from what was Wessex, East Anglia etc., but became England. This is why posh people in England sometime
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adger
7y ago
But...Is it not more like Englishmen celebrating Alfred the Great? You know, the Anglo-Saxon leader. A Germanic peoples (Alfred's army was also made up of Britons)
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adger
7y ago
To be fair, "circumstantial evidence" in archaeology is just saying something because you found a pot that looks like another pot. There will plenty of "circumstantial evidence" to suggest the opposite. :)
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adger
7y ago
I would go further than say it is an unnecessarily negative framing, this idea always seemed pretentious to me, nowadays it seems supressive. Are they really imagined? Or is this idea mostly a "social contruct" that is not really
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adger
7y ago
Apperantly not. According to this thread and hacker news in general you shouldn't diversify your media consumption. Unless what is meant by that is different sources with broadly the same agenda. Personally, I find this boring. Perhaps
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adger
7y ago
No. This is not true. The comment is exactly the same. Why are you doing this?