I for one am perfectly fine with Anglo-Saxon culture being tossed in the trash

[RB TexLa]

There would be no crying from me over it.

[Ikonoklast]

1. Ho do you feel about Philistines?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. How do you feel about the Hittite culture?

[Yavin4]

3. What About The Normans?

BTW, the name "Normans" doesn't really strike fear. "Huns", "Persians", "Vikings", now those are cool names. "Normans"? Not so much.

[HooptieWagon]

11. Norman is of course an abbreviation of North Men

They were Vikings permitted to settle there by the French king (Charlemagne or LouisII?) in order to defend the coast from other Vikings. Their leader, Rollo, became RobertI Duke of Normandy after baptism. He was the great great great grandfather of William the Conqueror.
All the invading tribes- Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Vikings, were all of Northern Germanic origin, and modern english language had its origins in German.

Not to disrespect the Celts, but when the Romans withdrew from England it left a void in government and defense. Many northern Europeans moved in and set up small kingdoms. The Angles and Saxons were the ones who were ultimately successful in driving out the Danes and eventually uniting the country under a single government that organized common law, developed a means of record keeping for taxation, and provided a national defense.

[Yavin4]

29. "developed a means of record keeping for taxation"

However, Sir Mitt of Romney refused to have his taxes recorded for fear of mocking.

[HooptieWagon]

30. Early on, there probably wasn't too much objection to taxes.

It was an agrarian society, land was wealth. In theory, the King owned all the land. However, it was impossible for one person to oversee. The King doled out land to Lords as rewards for loyalty and service. The peasants worked for their lords, who gave them "protection" and alloted them a small place for a vegetable garden, cow, and shack. A percentage of profits from the estates were sent to the shire Dukes. The King's representative, the "Shire Reeve" (later- "sheriff&quot appraised the profits, recconciled the number with what the area should be producing, and sent the taxes to the King. The Shire Reeve also kept an eye on the properties the King still held title to, keeping out squatters, poachers,etc. So basically, if you were paying taxes it was because the King gave you land... ignoring the forced labor of the peasants. The Kings grew wealthy, despite squandering vast amounts of money on war (which did have a payoff if they won... more land = more taxes), and elaborate estates and entourages. Not until the emergence of a wealth accumulating, relatively landless, mercantile class did there begin a resentment of taxes, and a demand for representation in government, largely in order to limit King's spending and taxing. In the Dane- held region, roughly central Britain, there was also a tax to the Danish King... Danegeld... that was assessed to all.

[AsahinaKimi]

20. Every time I hear this ..I can't help thinking of ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. "A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine" - "From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord"

The phrase you are looking for is, A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine, "From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord."

This phrase is alleged to have been the litany of despair raised up in every medieval church and monastic institution, starting after the first Viking raid upon Britain and continuing during the years of Scandinavian attacks upon Western Christendom. It has been shown, however, that the phrase is apocryphal 1.

No 9th century text has ever been discovered containing these words, although numerous medieval litanies and prayers contain general formulas for deliverance against unnamed enemies. The closest documentable phrase is a single sentence, taken from an antiphony for churches dedicated to St. Vaast or St. Medard: Summa pia gratia nostra conservando corpora et cutodita, de gente fera Normannica nos libera, quae nostra vastat, Deus, regna, "Our supreme and holy Grace, protecting us and ours, deliver us, God, from the savage race of Northmen which lays waste our realms"

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/vikfury.shtml

Plenty of fear, whether at the time, or post-dated.

[flamingdem]

4. Anglosaxons out!

Pan Celtic flag

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278319/Celtic-loyalists-push-ban-English-flags-Cornwall.html

Celtic supporters push for ban of 'foreign' English flags in Cornwall

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278319/Celtic-loyalists-push-ban-English-flags-Cornwall.html#ixzz21gsM3udV

Cornish flag wavers

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. Um, those 'Cornish flag wavers' are English, not in Cornwall, and waving the English flag

The point is that a few people in Cornwall wanted to boycott shops using or selling the St. George's flag of England. This is the Cornish flag:

[flamingdem]

26. Thanks. I should know this

but didn't read the article carefully. I know about the black and white flag for Kernow and thought - oh this is the color version I've never seen. Truth is I haven't paid attention to the St. George flag. I'm a cornophile not an anglophile.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Somebody asked me what an Anglo-Saxon is today

[earthside]

6. I feel the same way about Celtic culture.

An idiot thing to say.

[loli phabay]

7. not sure what you mean by this, or what other cultures you dont think are viable to be kept

[NYC_SKP]

8. Bring on the Brazilians!!!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. ... ... ...OK, I think we can work with this.

[Swede]

9. How do you feel about the Goths and Vandals?

nt

[Chan790]

18. I've never heard the Goths...

The Vandals' brand of surf-rock-influenced jokey pop-punk is too cute for my tastes.

[Lizzie Poppet]

32. Here you go:

Well...cyber-goth, anyway.

&feature=related

[arely staircase]

35. goths

[Fumesucker]

10. At least we don't have to worry about Carthaginian culture..

Carthage delenda est..

[Autumn]

12. They have a culture??? Who the hell knew that

I thought they just stole stuff from everyone else.

[flvegan]

14. I don't toss things in the trash with you!!!!!

Nope. Never gets old.

[Dr. Strange]

21. Well-played.

Judges say 10 points.

[limpyhobbler]

15. I feel like they are good at rock music and health care.

[DearAbby]

16. I just found out I was ANGLO-SAXON

fer crissakes. Granted, it isn't sharks with friggin lasers....but let me enjoy the moment.

[ananda]

17. I like being mostly Anglo-Saxon..

.. with some Irish and German in the mix.

I like my Irish Catholic and Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage.

But I don't like anyone using it to promote a racist agenda.
That really disgusts me.

[limpyhobbler]

19. We can't because of Dr. Who.

[joeybee12]

23. I'd be in tears...AbFab, Monty Python, Blackadder

Downton Abbey, Midsomer Murders and on and on and on.

[Quantess]

24. here's what I say to that:

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[arely staircase]

34. oh, yeah well i see that and raise you this

[HappyMe]

27. Much like I'm tossing your thread in

the trash.

[Odin2005]

28. Meh, I'm the descendant of vikings in Norway and Teutonic Knights in Prussia.

[Rex]

31. I for one am perfectly fine with

tossing your thread in the trash can.

[arely staircase]

33. what are you, some kind of norman sympathizer? nt