Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

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Bleakness, fear and yearning sweep the pages in true Old English poetic style, with clever, subtle use of alliteration and the sort of phrasing those poems might use.

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The grave-fields and barrow-mounds of these shadowed lands give up the bodies of farmers, warlords and queens, a scattering of their names preserved on weathered stone and brittle parchment. Just place names that once referred to Elmet and other place names that refer to a British church in Old English (Eccles). In Lost Realms Thomas Williams uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain’s ancient kingdoms: lands that hover in the twilight between history and fable, whose stories hum with gods and miracles, with giants and battles and ruin. Either way a thoroughly enjoyable book that even more brilliantly bring to life this period in my mind when I travel across the country!Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. He is assiduous about filling in background details (such as the Easter Controversy which is vital when it comes to assessing Bede's coverage of some events).

The less said about the little earnest cringe about the term Anglo-Saxon which forms a coda the better. This is a part of history I am very interested in, and so have at least a passing familiarity with much of what was discussed, yet I at no point felt like I was retreading old ground. This is a difficult historical topic to take on - Williams flat out says that if you aren't comfortable with minimal evidence and the liberal use of the word "possibly," this isn't the book for you. I purchased this book after hearing an interview with Thomas Williams on a podcast, but I am now looking forward to reading more of his books.Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Thomas Williams is a historian of the early Middle Ages and a former curator at the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals (2017-2018). Essex (Essex and Middlesex) - East Saxon kings claimed descent from Seaxnot, rather than claiming Woden as most other Saxon kings.