XPost: soc.genealogy.britain, soc.history   
   From: goddai01@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 16/10/17 08:02, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   > On 16/10/2017 05:50, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> UK’s north-south divide dates back to Vikings, says archaeologist   
   >>   
   >> Watford Gap discovered to be key geographical divide between invaders   
   >> and Anglo-Saxons   
   >>   
   > [snip article]   
   >   
   > Mr Adams is not saying anything new, I learn't about the Watford Gap and   
   > associated hills being the dividing line between Anglo-Saxon and Viking   
   > rule at school and the reasons why.   
      
   The Danes & Alfred's Wessex, having fought themselves to a standstill,   
   agreed this as a boundary with the proviso that Alfred agreed to keep   
   paying the Danes not to overstep the mark.  This was represented by   
   Wessex as a great victory for themselves, the moral being that history   
   doesn't have to be written by the victors.  It's written by the   
   literate, oral tradition isn't written.   
      
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