XPost: soc.genealogy.britain, soc.history   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:46:39 +0100, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   The Watling Street bit was rather new to me. When I was a student in   
   Durham a fellow student told me "Wogs begin south of the Trent", so I   
   thought of the boundary as a river, not a watershed.   
      
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