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?
Sorry, but this is becoming embarressing for you. You are not disagreeing with the information in the article, merely smearing the organisaton it is published by. Then you provide opinions of organisations that are equally unreliable.
You have been abusing your downvoting privilege and flagging comments. Down thread you resorted to lying. Amusingly you accused a commenter of assuming bad faith. Perhaps you should go and read the guidelines you cited?
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.
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"