Reply #109: Stating it emphatically doesn't clarify the matter [View All]

[JackintheGreen]

There were Angles, and Saxons, and Jutes, all from the continent, all invading the British Isles in the second half of the first millennium CE. They weren't a unified culture as such. Even if we assume as much, this Anglo-Saxon culture was harried by Vikings from about the 9th century, resulting in a further "dilution" of whatever pure culture you seem to be imaging existed in the first place. Though even this would have mixed with the Celts, Picts, and other groups on the Isles prior to, say 500CE.

This cultural admixture was then invaded by French-speaking Normans (well, langue d'oil) in the mid 11th century (I will tell of the Battle of Hastings/as happened in days long gone by/When Duke William became king of England/and 'arold got shot in the eye/It were this way...)

By this point, if we can even assume a coherent Anglo-Saxon culture, Christianity has long taken hold in Europe and the Teutonic religions known to the Anglo-Saxons were, to put it kindly, in disarray.

So I ask again, can you clarify what you mean by Anglo-Saxon culture? Or is it an ideological construction you are using to make a point? And what point could that possibly be given the thumb-nail sketch I have just given? Really, I am somewhat confused by your insistence.