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A huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence.
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry.
#UK #Archaeology #Genetics #DNA #RomanEmpire #History #Science #BronzeAge #NormanConquest #AngloSaxons #Vikings
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A huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence.
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry.
#UK #Archaeology #Genetics #DNA #RomanEmpire #History #Science #BronzeAge #NormanConquest #AngloSaxons #Vikings
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A huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence.
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry.
#UK #Archaeology #Genetics #DNA #RomanEmpire #History #Science #BronzeAge #NormanConquest #AngloSaxons #Vikings
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A huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence.
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry.
#UK #Archaeology #Genetics #DNA #RomanEmpire #History #Science #BronzeAge #NormanConquest #AngloSaxons #Vikings
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A huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only minor Roman influence.
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry.
#UK #Archaeology #Genetics #DNA #RomanEmpire #History #Science #BronzeAge #NormanConquest #AngloSaxons #Vikings
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#history #anglosaxons #vikings #books
HistoryExtra has a four part podcast series about the struggle between the Vikings and King Alfred. Beginning with the Great Heathen Army in 865 to the Battle of Edlington and its consequences. Viking expert Dr. Eleanor Barraclough leads you through the events. The link provides further listening and reading. https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/beyond-the-podcast-vikings-anglo-saxon/ -
#history #Anglosaxons #books
A historian is challenging the theory that the Anglo-saxons marched from Stamford Bridge to fight in the Battle of Hastings. He has been re-examining Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as well as 11th century sources. He states that the idea of marching from the north to meet William was a Victorian idea. Instead he says that Harold used England's naval assets to make the journey south. It comes as the Bayeux Tapestry is about to go on display in the UK.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3gdxgw44eo -
“Reading English From 1000 AD”, Lewis Campbell (https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131980
#English #Language #History #Writing #OldEnglish #Linguistics #AngloSaxons #England
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The surprisingly connected origins of "cow" and "beef".
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #cow #beef #anglosaxons #normans
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The bombing of Dresden (February 13–15, 1945)
German writer and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass and former editor of The Times Simon Jenkins believe that the bombings were a war crime. Jenkins also considers the bombings to be crimes against humanity. Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, writes that, along with the Holocaust, the bombing of Dresden and the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also war crimes and acts of genocide.
American journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens expressed the opinion that the bombing of many German residential areas, which served as living targets, was carried out solely so that new aircraft crews could practice bombing. In his opinion, the Allies burned German cities in 1944-1945 only because they were able to do so.
In his book, German historian Jörg Friedrich noted that, in his opinion, the bombing of cities was a war crime, since in the final months of the war it was not dictated by military necessity. In 2005, Friedrich noted that “it was a bombing that was completely unnecessary from a military point of view,” “an act of unjustified terror, mass destruction of people, and terrorization of refugees.” German historian Joachim Fest also believes that the bombing of Dresden was not necessary from a military point of view.
The question of whether the bombing of Dresden constitutes a war crime is meaningless without considering the bombing of cities such as Würzburg, Hildesheim, Paderborn, and Pforzheim, which had no military significance, were carried out in an identical manner and were also almost completely destroyed. The bombing of these and many other cities was carried out after the bombing of Dresden.
#WW2 #ww2 #war-crimes #US #usa #us #amercian #uk #england #greatbritain #british #anglo-saxons #terrorism #bombings #bombing #massmurder #civilians #deutschland #german #Würzburg #Hildesheim #Paderborn #Pforzheim #history #historyfacts #lamg_en
In Dresden, a memorial inscription about the bombing of the city by the American and British Air Forces in February 1945 was removed.
#^https://nitter.net/vicktop55/status/1747153598834688199 (17 Janyary 2024)
Then between 100 and 300 thousand city residents died.
The documented number of completely destroyed residential buildings, including apartment buildings, exceeded 78 thousand buildings, and the population of the city before the bombing, including refugees, was at least 900 thousand people (according to other sources, 1.2 million).
The Americans themselves explained the ruthlessness of the bombing by the fact that after the war the city passed into the area of responsibility of Moscow, which would have to spend significant funds on its restoration.
So this is exactly what the people of Dresden should forget.
#^https://diaspora-fr.org/posts/fa1a17609731013c3a560025900e4586
RE: https://hub.hubzilla.de/channel/kuchinster/?f=&mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly91c3NyLndpbi9pdGVtLzcxMjVlMDhjLTYzZWYtNGZiMC1hOWJmLTMyM2IwNjdhOGE2Zg -
𝗥𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 “𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁” 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗼-𝗦𝗮𝘅𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲
A rare 13th-century glass jewel depicting the Crucifixion has been unearthed at Sizewell C in Suffolk, linking medieval England to Venetian and Byzantine traditions.
#AncientOrigins #AncientHistory #artifacts #christianity #crucifiction #anglosaxons
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/crucifixion-glass-jewel-00102456 -
𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗼-𝗦𝗮𝘅𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀
A “princely” Anglo-Saxon grave—complete with a fully harnessed horse—has surfaced during excavations for the Sizewell C nuclear project. It is amongst 11 burials and many other finds of the project.
#AncientOrigins #AncientHistory #anglosaxons
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/anglo-saxon-burial-site-00102446 -
Ukrainian planners are counting on nuclear strikes, judging by the interface of the mapping service.
#^https://deepstatemap.live/
#ukraine #ukrainian #map #nuclear #fear #Western #warmongers #eu #europe #anglo-saxons #deepstate #narrative -
White people do better next time! Do not vote for moderate pedophile rapist Democrat Establishment politicians. You know better. No more moderate Democrat politicians!
#whitepeople
#racism
#nomoderates
#democrats
#zohranfornyc
#oldwhite
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US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev
This article is more than 20 years old.But while the gains of the orange-bedecked "chestnut revolution" are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
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In Ukraine, the equivalent is a ticking clock, also signalling that the Kuchma regime's days are numbered.
Stickers, spray paint and websites are the young activists' weapons. Irony and street comedy mocking the regime have been hugely successful in puncturing public fear and enraging the powerful.
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The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid are the main agencies involved in these grassroots campaigns as well as the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute.
US pollsters and professional consultants are hired to organise focus groups and use psephological data to plot strategy.
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Officially, the US government spent $41m (£21.7m) organising and funding the year-long operation to get rid of Milosevic from October 1999. In Ukraine, the figure is said to be around $14m.
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If the events in Kiev vindicate the US in its strategies for helping other people win elections and take power from anti-democratic regimes, it is certain to try to repeat the exercise elsewhere in the post-Soviet world.
#^https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
#ukraine #ukrainian #government #coup #Maidan #prehistory #history #politics #eu #europe #USA #US #american #usaid #NGO #Soros #softpower #imperialism #Western #deception #lie #mindmanipulation #anglo-saxons #anti-Russia -
The Looting of Russia
Sep 8, 1999It has been one debacle after another since the IMF introduced its “shock therapy” program in 1992. Like a battered spouse who sees no alternative but to return to her abuser, Russia comes back to the IMF for more credits. But the hundreds of billions that have fled the country in the 1990’s have cancelled out this “aid,” as well as the meager foreign direct investment, many times over. At the same time Russia has accumulated more than $150 billion in foreign debt, with the burden of debt service now reaching a crushing 29% of export earnings.
At some point any rational, non-corrupt political leader in Russia has to question whether the country’s friendly relations with Washington are worth the price of continued impoverishment. That time may be approaching, as Russia elects first a Parliament and then a President over the next 10 months. There will be calls from across the political spectrum to break, or at least loosen, the chains that bind Russia to its Western tormentors.
#^https://cepr.net/publications/the-looting-of-russia/
#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #history #politics #USA #US #american #imperialism #Western #deception #lie #anglo-saxons -
Two seventh-century people found with west African ancestry – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society
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**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**
"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"
🔗 https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15187?v=pdf.
#OpenAccess #OA #Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Migration #Britain #Germanic #AngloSaxons #Linguistics #History @linguistics
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:
📖: The Anglo Saxon World: An Anthology translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Archaeoethnologica: Natural & Supernatural in Medieval England - Book / Natural e Sobrenatural na Inglaterra Medieval - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/natural-e-sobrenatural-na-inglaterra.html
#Archaeology #Medieval #England #germans #anglosaxons #natural #supernatural #religion #sources #imaginary #books #OpenAccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Natural & Supernatural in Medieval England - Book / Natural e Sobrenatural na Inglaterra Medieval - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/natural-e-sobrenatural-na-inglaterra.html
#Archaeology #Medieval #England #germans #anglosaxons #natural #supernatural #religion #sources #imaginary #books #OpenAccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Natural & Supernatural in Medieval England - Book / Natural e Sobrenatural na Inglaterra Medieval - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/natural-e-sobrenatural-na-inglaterra.html
#Archaeology #Medieval #England #germans #anglosaxons #natural #supernatural #religion #sources #imaginary #books #OpenAccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Natural & Supernatural in Medieval England - Book / Natural e Sobrenatural na Inglaterra Medieval - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/05/natural-e-sobrenatural-na-inglaterra.html
#Archaeology #Medieval #England #germans #anglosaxons #natural #supernatural #religion #sources #imaginary #books #OpenAccess
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Bargain Stone in Wolverhampton, England
A mysterious churchyard stone with a peculiar hole was once used to seal market transactions.#mystery #anglo-saxons #stone #section-Atlas
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Archaeoethnologica: Cultural Memory in Icelandic Sagas / Memoria Cultural nas Sagas dos Islandeses
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/03/memoria-cultural-nas-sagas-dos.html
#germans #sagas #Scandinavia #Medieval #Iceland #England #memory #literature #book #epic #anglosaxons #vikings #sources
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We killed you, now pay us back
Before anyone comes up with the idea of making alliances with the Anglo-Saxons, let him first keep in mind that for them, due to their mentality that grows out of Protestantism, we will always be cattle to be exploited and, if necessary, sacrificed on the altar of Anglo-Saxon interests.
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And one final thought. Following the journalism of the last three years, only a few point to banderism as the main cause of Ukraine's current woes. The banderization that took place after the Orange Revolution in 2004, and whose main determinant was the cult of hatred against Russia, made Ukraine an ideal tool in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons for a hot war with Russia.
#^https://myslpolska.info/2025/02/25/warecki-zabilismy-was-a-teraz-nam-zaplaccie/
#USA #US #american #anglo-saxons #vassalage #ukraine #ukrainianconflict #ukrainian #banderism #war against #Russia #history -
🌐 Sommet sur l’intelligence artificielle de Paris
🔸 58 pays signent une déclaration pour une IA « ouverte », « inclusive » et « éthique »
https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/techno/2025-02-11/sommet-sur-l-intelligence-artificielle-de-paris/58-pays-signent-une-declaration-pour-une-ia-ouverte-inclusive-et-ethique.php
#IA #ouverte #inclusive #éthique #Paris #France #Chine #Inde #Europe #USA #UK #Afrique #anglosaxons -
In 2009, at the height of Operation Cast Lead – the Israeli attack on Gaza that killed more than 1,000 people – #Berg attended a pro-Israel demonstration in central London. Moreover, he even chastised the Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, for noting that only 5,000 people showed up to the event. In Berg’s opinion, there were three times as many in attendance. The BBC would later change its guidelines to prevent its newsroom employees from attending controversial demonstrations.
During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military was found to have indiscriminately targeted and killed civilians, used Palestinians as human shields, and used banned chemical weapons, such as white phosphorous, on civilian areas.
Three years later, in November 2012, Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense, a high-profile, bloody assault on Gaza that made worldwide headlines. As Israel bombarded the densely-populated civilian area, Berg went on his own internal offensive, telling his BBC colleagues to word their stories in a way that does not blame or “put undue emphasis” on Israel. Instead, leaked emails show, he encouraged journalists to present the attack as an operation “aimed at ending rocket fire from Gaza,” thereby framing #Hamas as the aggressor.
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The implications of former U.S. national security state operatives dictating global media output are profound. This is not least because the State Department and CIA are among the world’s most notoriously dishonest and perfidious institutions, regularly injecting lies and false information into public discourse to further Washington’s ambitions. As Mike #Pompeo, former Director of the CIA and then-Secretary of State, said in 2019:
"When I was a cadet, what’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses [on] it!”
#US #BBC #UK #england #britain #Israel #Western #anglo-saxons #intelligence #media #lie #cheat #fraud #deception #mindmanipulation #CIA #Mossad #Gaza #history
La Gazette schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sun, 05 Jan 2025 04:45:03 +0100 Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East Editor Exposed as CIA, Mossad Collaborator https://mintpressnews.fr/bbc-israel-coverage-raffi-berg-cia-mossad-links/288909/ -
#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day 18:I've always been interested in the history of the #BritishIsles. Today, I'm recommending a historical novel, the first of #TheSaxonStories, #TheLastKingdom.
It is set at the end of the 9th century and follows the rise + reign of #KingÆlfredTheGreat of the West + then the #AngloSaxons.
#20books
#20books20days
#20Bücher
@bookstodon
@mina @Neireh @MaJ1 @mattotcha @2ndStar @energiepirat @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @forthy42 @GreenFire -
Dans "Anatomie des Anglais" d'Emerson, "force physique, vigueur, virilité, énergie se dégagent comme étant le prolongement naturel du gout pour le sang des premiers Saxons qu'il présente avec amour."
Nell Irvin #Painter in "Histoire des Blancs" (2010)#AngloSaxons #racisme #suprémacismeBlanc #blanchité #lectureDécoloniale #masculinité #virilité #suprémacisme #patriarcat #masculinités #dominationMasculine #suprémacisme
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22nd April, Today we commemorate the last British #Pagan King, and last king of the #IsleOfWight Arwald.
On this day in 686, Cædwalla, King of Wessex invaded the #Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, the land of Whit [ ᚹᛁᚻᛏ ] (Spirits / Supernatural Beings).
Arwald had sent his two son to his kinsfolk, the Meonwara to keep them safe.
Due to their superior size, the army of Cædwalla were victorious. However, not without many casualties. #Folklore says that Arwald dealt Cædwalla a near fatal wound that never healed and would ultimately take his life many years later. The story says, that the last curse, uttered using the last of the old magic was from Arwald's lips as he struck Cædwalla.
After the battle, Cædwalla sent his men the commit genocide on the island. A memory that still runs deep on the Island, even to this day.
The two princes were also betrayed after they had been forced to convert to #christianity -- Cædwalla had them killed.
This is not the of the story, the sister of Arwald was the wife of the King of #Kent and was the great great great Grandmother of #AlfredTheGreat. One could argue, the line of Wiht is behind the whole of the British royal family.
#OldEnglish #histodons #medievodons #AngloSaxons #AngloSaxonSaturday #paganism
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#UKpol #UKreformNow should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:
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@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreformNow should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:
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@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreformNow should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:
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@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreformNow should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:
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@[email protected]
#UKpol #UKreformNow should be the time to undo the work of #AlfredTheGreat.
Time to catch up: a defensive union of the #Saxon kingdoms is no longer needed: there are no raids by #Highlanders, the #Irish, the #Vikings anymore and there is no #Danelaw.
However, there's #NATO + the #EuropeanUnion.1,137 years after #Ælfred became King of the #AngloSaxons , it's time for a paradigm shift. It is time for the #RegionsOfEurope 2.0, in particular for the #BritishIsles:
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Last post in honour of #InternationalWomensDay -- The #Jutes and #AngloSaxons knew #March as Hreðemónaþ or Month of Hreðe.
There is very little known about this Goddess, her precise nature and significance remain shrouded in mystery.
Some have suggested that Hreðe was a goddess of victory and glory, celebrated by warriors who sought her favor in battle. Others, however, see her as a more sinister figure, associated with the violence and destruction that inevitably accompany conflict.
What is clear is that Hreðe was a powerful figure, one who inspired both reverence and possibly fear. Her name is derived from "hréþ" which means "glorious victory" and the verb hréðan means "to exult and rejoice". Because of this, she has been associated with war, in particular victory in war.
Another definition is: Quickly, immediately, at once, soon, forthwith, straightway. This could be a clue to the nature of her as well -- She is the Goddess of March, and this may refer to how swiftly weather changes, one day warm and the next still winter.
Hreðe may represent the fight and eventual triumph over the dark and cold of winter.
Some have suggested her name means "cruel", but that is a mistranslation of the #OldEnglish "reþe"
Ultimately, the true nature and significance of Hreðe may never be fully understood. But what is clear is that she remains a compelling and complex figure.
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#law #university #lawstudents #lawstudent #history #legaleducation #legalhistory #feminism #criticalracetheory #anglosaxons #anglosaxon #norman #normans #plantagenet #plantagenets #magnacarta #blackdeath #tudor #tudors #stuarts #stuart #thecivilwar #constitution #constitutionallaw #publiclaw #criminallaw #tort #tortlaw #contract #contractlaw #propertylaw #landlaw #trusts #equity #labourlaw #commonlaw #courts
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Dans "Anatomie des Anglais" d'Emerson, "force physique, vigueur, #virilité, énergie se dégagent comme étant le prolongement naturel du gout pour le sang des premiers Saxons qu'il présente avec amour."
Nell Irvin #Painter in "Histoire des Blancs" (2010) #AngloSaxons #racisme #suprémacismeBlanc #blanchité #lectureDécoloniale -
Bit of a special #OldEnglish #WordOfTheDay today:
bróðormægen [ ᛒᚱᚩᚦᚩᚱᛗᚫᚷᛖᚾ ] : brothers in magic / family in magic
bróðor: brother
mægen: strength ; power / magical powerPronunciation: https://files-thefolklore-cafe.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/attachments/magic-brothers.m4a
This is a title used the users of the deepest of magics, those that are brothers by magics deeper than blood. Family in power, strength and magic.
Those of us who know #Hookland, know we are all bróðormægen.
#AngloSaxons #Jutish #histodons #pagan #paganism #FairytaleTuesday #Folklore
@languagelovers
@anglosaxon
@folklore
@oldenglish
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It's #OldEnglish #WordOfTheDay time and today, in honour of #NationalStorytellingWeek we are going with
spelspreca [ᛋᛈᛖᛚᛋᛈᚱᛖᚳᚪ]:
prose-speaker; storytellerspel(l): prose / work or prose
spreca: A speaker / one who speaks in council / Speaks with authority
Pronunciation: https://files-thefolklore-cafe.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/attachments/spelspreca.m4a
This is the title of a great storyteller, the person who tells the tales or greatness, adventure, of mourning and loss. There is no coincidence that we say stories are "spell-binding"; for the #AngloSaxons and #Jutes, telling stories were the deepest of magics. Every evocative word invoked the most powerful of spells.
#histodons #medieval #EarlyMedieval #medievodons #folklore #FolkloreThursday #Storytelling
@languagelovers
@histodons
@medievodons
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I week ago I was a guest a #podcast called Witching Around, talking about the #NewYear, #Paganism, #History, #Magic, #folklore, #Jutes, #AngloSaxons and #mythology
Lots of really fun stuff. I very much enjoyed myself.
#MythologyMonday #histodon #histodons #OldEnglish
@folklore
@pagan
@paganism
@histodonsHave a listen for free: https://anchor.fm/witchingaroundpod/episodes/Light-in-the-Darkness-with-Paul-Wilson-e1t09n1
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Hi #Histodons -- Today is (roughly) what the #AngloSaxons and #Jutes would have called the start of Ærra Gēola [ ᚫᚱᚱᚪ:ᚷᛖᚩᛚᚪ ] or "First/Before #Yule"; their name for #December.
The two main celebrations for this time of year were the Winter Solstice (Yule) and Mōdraniht [ ᛗᚩᛞᚱᚪᚾᛁᚻᛏ ] or "Mother's Night" (on the 25th, though might be apocryphal).
I like to think they maybe it was a celebration of the the other Mother Goddesses celebrated through the year:
Hrêða [ ᚻᚱᛖᚦᚪ ]
Ēostre [ ᛖᚩᛋᛏᚱᛖ ]
And finally the Winter Goddess herself, Frīg [ ᚠᚱᛁᚷ ]Artwork by me, the first is Hrêða -- she is announcing that her sister Ēostre is coming. The second off of Ēostre, under the three of life. Both in the #Early #Medieval Style
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#vendrediLecture #antiracisme
Dans "Anatomie des Anglais" d'Emerson, "force physique, vigueur, #virilité, énergie se dégagent comme étant le prolongement naturel du gout pour le sang des premiers Saxons qu'il présente avec amour."
Nell Irvin Painter in "Histoire des Blancs" (2010) #prédation #AngloSaxons #racisme #suprémacismeBlanc #blanchité 📔#lectureDécoloniale