Danelaw? was Re: SC - Re: Only place to suffer

[WOLFMOMSCA at aol.com]

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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