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My name is Jamie and this is Episode 252, the coming of the Anglo-Scan Danavians.

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At the start of 867 there were four major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain, but by 874, three

of those four, Northumbria, East Anglia and Mercia, had lost their independence.

That's a time span of only seven years, and in that seven years, the political landscape

of Britain had changed dramatically and permanently.

That's insane.

For scale, that's just barely longer than lost.

Imagine being a free kingdom back when you thought there was something interesting going

on with Walt and then being fully under the control of a foreign government by the time

that you realized that everyone was just hanging out in the church with Hurley for some reason.

That's crazy.

And also the other thing that was crazy was the ending of lost.

I don't know what Linda Loth was thinking when he wrote that, but it's been over a decade

and I'm still annoyed.

But the point is, the life moves on.

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