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   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "flink"  wrote in message   
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   > Allan has been reading too many comic books. There is a passage in the   
   > Anglo-Saxon Chronicles about Anglian horsemen defeating the Picts, so look   
   > it up if you are not too busy.   
      
   It would help if you stuck to the period in question.  You claimed that the   
   Anglian cavalry were under siege by Urien.  That is towards the end of the   
   6thC.  The earliest mention of any Anglian cavalry in fact refers to the   
   year 672AD when Ecgfrith mounted an expedition against the Picts.  I don't   
   know about the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (it's not mentioned in the version I   
   have) but it is mentioned in "Life Of Wilfred......by Eddius".  However this   
   is certainly about 80 years after the period in question.  In Leslie   
   Alcock's "1978 O' Donnel Lecture" he mentions this first known use of horses   
   by the Anglians and suggests that they learned it directly from the   
   Gododdin.  In fact he goes as far as to argue that many of them were indeed   
   themselves Gododdin.  An interesting subject but not relevant to your   
   statement.  There is no proof or mention of 6thC mounted Anglian warriors.   
      
      
   Allan   
      
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