90 – WelshCast Part Three: The Silent Treatment
The British History Podcast
Jamie Jeffers
4.6 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2013
⏱️ 22 minutes
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As you probably remember from the main podcast, before we had the appearance of major Anglo Saxon kingdoms, there was an initial migration and invasion in the sub-Roman period, with famous Germanic leaders like Hengest, Horsa, and Aelle appearing in Kent and Sussex. But there was also a staunch British resistance to these incursions lead, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, that one's a little more obscure, but once again, we have a Welsh singer. |
| 0:15.3 | So welcome to the Welsh cast, my name is Jamie. |
| 0:20.7 | And I know this one's a little late, and I have an explanation for that, but I'll save |
| 0:23.9 | it for the end. |
| 0:24.9 | So I'm going to turn down GEM, different GEM than GEM in the holograms, but if you got |
| 0:29.8 | the GEM in the holograms reference, you are about as old as I am. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, so as you probably remember from the main podcast, before we had the appearance of |
| 0:40.8 | major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, there was an initial migration and invasion in the sub-Roman period |
| 0:46.9 | with famous leaders like Hingist, Horsa, and Aila appearing in Kent and Sussex. |
| 0:53.3 | But there was also a staunch British resistance to those incursions led, in part, by a man |
| 0:58.7 | by the name of Ambrosius Orelionus, who might have also been known as re-automus, and |
| 1:04.3 | also might have been the inspiration for Arthur, but only maybe because Arthur is a bit |
| 1:09.3 | of a mystery. |
| 1:10.6 | So that resistance culminated in a battle described by Gildus as Mons Badonakis. |
| 1:16.3 | But in the Arthurian legends, it's known as the Battle of Baton Hill. |
| 1:21.0 | When Gildus tells us that following that fight, there wasn't any further conflict between |
| 1:25.3 | the British and Germanic migrants. |
| 1:28.0 | And to support this story, we have accounts from the continent that indicate that there |
| 1:32.2 | was a reverse migration, that Germanic migrants were packing up and saying, ugh, enough of this |
| 1:38.6 | Britannia thing, and heading back to mainland Europe. |
| 1:42.8 | All of this points to a story of resistance, violence, and possible expulsion, though |
| 1:48.1 | the reverse migration could also just be a response to other factors, or just the |
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