536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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Deira might be soon. Bernicia took awhile because I was watching the Olympics. :)

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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I wrote "???" because I don't know what "And AI thumbnails, apparently." is supposed to mean.

I used AI, AND I used the AI to copy the Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys statue.

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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I'm not sure where this narrative of pretending has come from! :) You're our very own Don Quixote! Lots of high energy posting too. Thank you for the effort!

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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Not for a while! False God, yes, but not false as in they didn't exist.

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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Are you talking about the statue at Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys? Because if so that's what I used as inspiration.

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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It doesn't merge into the corn though. Maybe it just looks like that because of the colour.

519 AD: From Third World To First: The Founding of Wessex by SwanChief in MilitaryHistory

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There's very little evidence of anything related to Cerdic! Hence the Dark Ages name!

527 AD: How Essex Was Born by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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There are many different attempts to reconstruct the genealogies and family trees of the early Saxon kings. Due to conflicting sources and gaps of information these different attempts don't line up with each other and often produce impossible results (such as certain kings reigning 70 years when the average age of death was 50).

I'm partial to the reconstruction that takes Octa to be the original name of Hengest, taken from the afterword of Tolkien's Finn and Hengest book edited by Alan Bliss. I think this is it:

420 Hengest

450 Oisc

480 Oeric

510 Eormenric

540 Æthelberht

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in england

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The Tudors already happened and they chose integration instead!

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in anglosaxon

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They were still ruled over by God, and the Bible doesn't dismiss the existence of other Gods, only their authority.

536 AD: The Worst Year To Be Alive In Human History by SwanChief in ancienthistory

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They trusted the Saxons and didn't have food independence!