Anglo-Saxon England and the Vikings, 757-1066
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Song of the Angels
Britons to them meant celts, people like the cornish and the welsh. They considered themselves saxons. That was their term for who they were. So this song ruled britannia. It's so definitive and so beloved by britons. Its really shone forth through the last two and a half centuries as the symbol of britain. But it's based on an effort to selectively pick out incidents of history and images and associations from history and spin them into national myths. And it really succeeded in creating this new otion of a unified, patriotic briton that is free and protestant and that is a sea power.
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