[SunkenCiv]

An Anglo-Saxon burial mound in Taplow Court, England. (Credit: mbarredo/Shutterstock)

[Regulator]

More “we are all immigrants” propaganda to try to legitimize the immivasion in Britain.

[pierrem15]

The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings were, in other words, strikingly similar to the multiracial societies of contemporary northern Europe.

Perhaps. But they were not multicultural. In fact, the Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity led them to sever many existing cultural ties to Scandinavia and tied them much more closely to Merovingian and Carolingian France.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[11th_VA]

Slightly off topic: I watched ‘The Dig’ last weekend - interesting ‘based on true story’ UK archeological movie … it was pretty good

[Gene Eric]

Did you watch The Dig?

[proxy_user]

If you read Tacitus, he describes hundreds of Germanic tribes. Most of them were amalgamated into just a few groups only 500 years later. Since their languages were mutually intelligible, this was a relatively straightforward process, and they gradually joined up into quasi-national groups.

Generally speaking, tribal peoples are not very picky about merging. American Indian tribes would fight wars, and the losing tribe would just be taken over by the winner. Many of the male warriors were killed, but whoever was left was absorbed.

Nobody asked for any documents, because nobody could read or write.