‘Credited with helping England win the battle of Crécy’
*Thousands of Welsh longbowmen who have trained with heavy warbows since infancy and are now built like Chargers from L4D2:*
This is basically correct, down to the part where it talks about Edmund, Edward and Æthelbert being patron saints of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
This is modern revisionist rubbish. They were not divided like this.
Edward the Confessor died in 1066. This is well beyond the period when “Saxon” and “Angle” were distinct identities. The Kingdom of England was one kingdom by then, and they called themselves English.
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‘Credited with helping England win the battle of Crécy’
*Thousands of Welsh longbowmen who have trained with heavy warbows since infancy and are now built like Chargers from L4D2:*
This is basically correct, down to the part where it talks about Edmund, Edward and Æthelbert being patron saints of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
This is modern revisionist rubbish. They were not divided like this.
Edward the Confessor died in 1066. This is well beyond the period when “Saxon” and “Angle” were distinct identities. The Kingdom of England was one kingdom by then, and they called themselves English.