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Normandy is a small region in the north east of France. Brittany is a small region in the north west of France.

Some Vikings were exiled from what was Wessex, East Anglia etc., but became England.

This is why posh people in England sometimes call their dog "Rollo", Rollo was the Viking leader that the Normans descended from. The people that went on to invade England.

None of this invalidates the idea of France or England or French or English.

Ps. You were pointing to current trends, hence pointing toward Paris and peripheries or "four or five generations ago"

But...Is it not more like Englishmen celebrating Alfred the Great? You know, the Anglo-Saxon leader. A Germanic peoples (Alfred's army was also made up of Britons)

To be fair, "circumstantial evidence" in archaeology is just saying something because you found a pot that looks like another pot. There will plenty of "circumstantial evidence" to suggest the opposite. :)

I would go further than say it is an unnecessarily negative framing, this idea always seemed pretentious to me, nowadays it seems supressive.

Are they really imagined? Or is this idea mostly a "social contruct" that is not really accepted as reality outside of a few "intellectuals". They seem to be describing their delusions of grandeur. Is it not them that have the problem?

Apperantly not. According to this thread and hacker news in general you shouldn't diversify your media consumption. Unless what is meant by that is different sources with broadly the same agenda.

Personally, I find this boring. Perhaps you agree.

No. This is not true. The comment is exactly the same.

Why are you doing this?