They STOPPED teaching the ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ANGLO-SAXON ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ STORY.
Hereโs a brief introduction to it. ๐งต
Fifteen hundred years ago, England didnโt exist.
Angles. Saxons. Jutes. Open boats across the North Sea. They carved the island into seven warring kingdoms. โ๏ธ
But they built. Churches. Laws written in English, not Latin. Shires, your county was drawn by their hands over a thousand years ago.
Then the Vikings came. And nearly ended everything.
By 878, every kingdom had fallen. Every king had fled or died.
Except one. A 28-year-old hiding in a marsh called Alfred.
He fought back. Built fortified towns. Retook London. Wrote a legal code. Translated books into English.
He wanted a nation that could think, not just fight.
His daughter commanded armies. His grandson became the first King of all England. 927 AD. ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
In 1066, the Normans destroyed them. For 200 years, the English were ruled by people who didnโt speak English.
But the Normans couldnโt kill what the Anglo-Saxons built.
The language survived. The shires survived. The common law survived.
The idea that a king answers to his people.
That survived.
It became Magna Carta. Parliament. The jury. Us.
Every word youโre reading right now is rooted in Anglo-Saxon English.
Next year, England turns 1,100. Most people donโt even know it has a birthday. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Weโre going deeper.
Follow so you donโt miss it. ๐ฌ๐ง๐
What were you taught about the Anglo-Saxons at school? Or were they justโฆ skipped?
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