Dark Age bullies & forgotten kingdoms: busting early medieval myths
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Do Lost Kingdoms Remain?
Do those lost kingdoms still resonate or echo in any way today? Can we still find any evidence of these identities that you talked about? Do they still have any value, any power? Oh, absolutely, I think they really do. Sometimes it's quite obvious. The Kingdom of Essex retains its name in the county of Essex and there are many people from Essex who feel a very strong attachment to that deep-rooted history. In Sussex, the Kingdom of Sussex became the two counties of Sussex. And likewise, Fiche, again, which is very much a sort of valley depression surrounded by the Cotswolds and the Morven Hill. So you can really see in the landscape the
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