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Originally Posted by htismaqe
They're actually Anglo-Saxon names. Aethelred, Aethelflaed, Aldhelm, Alfred, Osbert, etc. All Old English. Descended from northwestern Europe - Denmark southwest to Belgium. The irony is that the Saxons' primary enemy at the time of the show was the Danes, who were from just a few miles north of the Saxons on the mainland. They just migrated at different times.
To make a long story short, there's basically 4 factions at the time of the show - Wessex, Mercia, and East Anglia are Saxon. Of course, the Vikings are Dane and Norse. Then you have two related but distinct factions in the Celts. The Gaelic Celts inhabited Ireland and Scotland and then you had the Bretonic Celts in Wales, Cornwall, and Cumbria that were descended from the Britons.
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You clearly know your shit
I'm aware of all of that on an above surface level, books and documentaries about the old country have been mainstays with me since my teenage years
But being a schooled historian gives you a deeper understanding than myself, and I will never be too old to be schooled... its very complicated history to try and get a handle on
Though geographically close, they were all quite distinct yet somehow intertwined people
William Wallace is the biggest Scottish hero ever yet his family hailed from Wales.. the surname Wallace is just another name for Welsh
O' is Irish for "son of"
Mc is Scottish for the same
Our ancestors were some strange mfers, lol