Comments by "earthstick" (@earthstick) on "The Anglo-Saxon Legacy" video.

Perhaps David could cover the origins of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain and separate history from legend. There is a tale that Hengist and Horsa were employed as mercenaries by Vortigern, they rebelled against their employer and began taking the country. It even has its own decapitation event in 'the night of the long knives', where Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth claim the celts and Saxons were discussing terms of a truce when the Saxons pulled knives from their boots and killed the Celtic leaders.
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@PrestonSartorius Well yes, it's tales and myths. Is it simply that records were not kept or lost, or is it by design that the victors wanted to erase the previous peoples history? Hengist, Horsa and Vortigern are mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronical (I just read the passage A.D. 449). But Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth are said to be less reliable.
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@PrestonSartorius So what of the claim made in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle? It is the story according to one of their own. That does not mean it is true, but it is the explanation that they themselves put forward.
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@PrestonSartorius And Bede spent his entire life in a monastery. His knowledge must have been somewhat distant. But regarding the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, what I am getting at is that is their statement. If not what actually happened, it is what they stand by. I think that says something in itself, because the account they wrote is what they knew they would be judged by, and they were happy to be so.
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