Tons of fire on it, risk-leaving,

News of the man,

Nity-clery,

Two hell-oh-we-tees-all-daring,

For you,olic men!

Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie, and this is Episode 171,

The Welsh Cast, Part 7.

This show is free and independent due to member support,

and as thanks for helping keep the community going,

I offer members only content,

such as extra episodes and rough transcripts.

If you're interested in supporting the show

and helping us out, you can do so over at the British History Podcast.com,

and thank you very much to Alex, Shannon, and Patrick for contributing already.

When we last left off,

we were talking about how we have a limited understanding of this area of history

due to a combination of scarce resources and the Victorians building a mythology of Englishness.

We also covered the early Middle Ages,

and the turn that was occurring in southern Britain in the 6th century.

Where the Anglo-Saxons, especially the West Saxons,

had rebounded from those early losses,

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