Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie.

And I've got something pretty neat here, actually.

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Anyway, history.

So today we start with a death.

Whitgar, brother of beloved stuff, warrior, conqueror of chertices, or, and ruler of the

Isle of White, died in 554.

We're diddy.

There's a funny thing about dying.

You have to be alive first.

And there's an argument that Whitgar might have been a mythical character that was created

after the fact to establish a ruling dynasty for the Whitwara, the men of white.

It's something we may never know for certain, and honestly, it's a bit of a microcosm for

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