tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7779136.post8332692851000053914..comments2023-10-10T13:31:24.972+00:00Comments on Waking Hereward: Stephen Fry is allowed to say 'English'. (But just this once, mind!)...Alfiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04135869751268396259noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7779136.post-58699034139369737532011-01-30T17:27:55.835+00:002011-01-30T17:27:55.835+00:00Because..oh Alf the Wise, it's so politically ...Because..oh Alf the Wise, it's so politically incorrect these days, to use such words, so Racist, you know.<br /><br />And it gives the BBC a chance to say 'Sorry' one more time. Bunch of wankers, that's what they are.Red Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03391869033197891864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7779136.post-47398726709700800262011-01-17T14:07:42.897+00:002011-01-17T14:07:42.897+00:00Cornubian -
'For the record the 'French&#...Cornubian - <br />'For the record the 'French' were not French. They were Normans from the Duchy of Normandy. Equally their army included Bretons who certainly wouldn't have thought of themselves as French at that time'. <br /><br />Please see the penultimate paragraph in the post - <br />'Oh, and by the way Mr Fry, The English were not fighting the French at the battle of Hastings, they were fighting the Normans - Norse men descended from Viking stock'...<br /><br />Harold's army at Senlac Hill was primarily made up of Wessex men. The Saxon army which fought at Fulford and Stamford Bridge was not the same as that which fought at Senlac Hill - it was largely made up of northern and midland Saxons....<br /><br />Also, 'English dominated establishment'...... now there's a novelty!Alfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04135869751268396259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7779136.post-60811404465921501452011-01-17T13:10:33.282+00:002011-01-17T13:10:33.282+00:00For the record the 'French' were not Frenc...For the record the 'French' were not French. They were Normans from the Duchy of Normandy. Equally their army included Bretons who certainly wouldn't have thought of themselves as French at that time. <br /><br />Isn't it possible that the Anglo-saxon forces included Welsh and Cornish fighters?<br /><br />So Saxons and Britons V Normans and Bretons then? <br /><br />But what you describe I'm fully used to. In Cornwall it's quite normal for the English dominated establishment to re-write our Cornish history and back date the English conquest that never actually really happened.cornubianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13985409305363332274noreply@blogger.com