UNLOCKED: Myth of the Month 12, Finale: The Historical King Arthur
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Oral History in Verse
For centuries, this oral history was treated as simply historically worthless folklore. But andrew newman combed through the oral histories from various other indigenous peoples around the world. Several of them told the same story of portuguese or dutchm rners playing a trick on them to get a small plot of land in southern africa,. In indonesia and the philippines. And it seems that histories in verse can be pas on for centuries and preserve at least some bits of factual information.
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