@pangadelica@TheNewTrueBlue I broadly like everything and understand it within the context of changing times. I love Anglo-Saxon history and then when the Normans come I'm like "fair play, a wins a win for them" and get interested in all the castles and knighthood and such.
@AhernHerbe8277@sixucls Stoker was a protestent of mixed Irish and English descent who said โThe spread of the English-speaking peoples... carries with it law, justice, and ordered freedom.โ he was very pro-crown and pro-union. Though still proudly Irish too.
@bornposting I think it's more the fact that he was a protestent of Anglo-Irish descent and supported the British empire, while also being proudly Irish. This makes it complicated, since Irish nationalism generally doesn't recognise people like him as "real Irish".
@MrConroyScience@angloid0 Well if we count Alfred as the first king, then Edward the Elder is the first Edward, if we count รthelstan, then Edward The Martyr is the first Edward. Though the Anglo-saxons used nicknames not numbers.
@HormuzBunker@QuetzalPhoenix The Celts also came from mainland europe to conquer the bronze age Bell-beaker people. Almost Everyone aside from isolated islands (the Icelanders, Madagascar Polynesians, Falkland British, etc.) is from somewhere else originally
@nonregemesse The marriages are clever. Baela to Jace ensures Daemon's blood on the iron throne, and Rhaena to Luke ensures Velaryon blood on the driftwood throne.
@realprsn4sure@jaxie2342@graveair People say this often in the context of Ned, forgetting Ned died not because he was a man of great honour, but because in a moment of desperation he forsaked his honour and confessed to a crime he didn't commit in an attempt to negotiate with evil.