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the Picts & the Lost English Mythology

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Jennifer O'Dell
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« on: March 15, 2007, 03:37:06 am »

Hi Zeptepi,

Great post, I learned a lot. Still, I have to disagree with your idea that there wasn't any Dark Age.  Of course there was.  The Goths sacked Rome and the city (and all the lands that it controlled) slipped back.  Once Rome fell, there was no empire to do the upkeep on all the things they built and so, people ended up building their settlements beside the great Roman ruins, not on top of them.  Christianity also took hold and it did a heck of a job destroying all the knowledge that was accumulated by Classical Greece and Rome, putting religious teachings in their place.  You mentoned the Vikings but they didn't start their raids till something like 793 ad.

I do agree that the Saxxons were a civilizing influence e on Britain, though, and that the Picts are a really under-rated tribe or people.  A really good movie about that (I thought anyway) was the King Arthut movie starring Clive Owen.  All about the Picts and the Saxxons warring when Rome pulled out of Britain...
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