Danelaw? was Re: SC - Re: Only place to suffer
WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com
WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com
Fri Aug 14 15:32:05 PDT 1998
Danelaw: Those northern shires of England where ex-raider Viking-types
settled down (York is the biggest example of this). King Alfred couldn't make
'em go away, so he made a treaty with a guy named Guthrum. You Danes govern
yourselves up there with your own laws, and we English will leave you alone.
A century later, England had a Danish king or three, and the Anglo-Saxons were
not happy. Then along comes Billy the Bastard (another Norseman, BTW), and
Anglo-Saxon England becomes Norman England (y'know, 1066 and all that).
I tend to refer to governmental change via settlement in overwhelming numbers
in a bounded geographic area as a "Danelaw" situation.
Walk in peace,
Wolfmother
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