Dark Age bullies & forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths
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How Hard Is It to Get Into the Story of These Lost Realms?
There is almost no contemporary historical source to guide us whatsoever. All we really have to guide us here is a sermon written by Welsh monk called Gildass, who sets the groundwork for that standard narrative of Germanic conquest. But so much has then been built on that story. And in some ways, it's the archaeology that gives the lie to a lot of that standard narrative.
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