a non-nihilistic Rick long before Rick and Morty

Not to be that guy, but the first series of Rick and Morty started seven months before the broadcast of 'Deep Breath'.

Very much oxen as typical practice. Draught horses strong enough to pull a plough better than oxen weren't bred until the 18th century. Horses were also more expensive than oxen, including in Scotland, where available breeds tended to be smaller than in England. However, a key point we get from medieval sources is that people often made do with what they had, sometimes using horses or mules in the circumstantial absence of oxen, or even pulling the plough themselves in the worst of circumstances.

I think I'll probably go with this. Thanks!

Not often I appreciate the Adam Smith Institute, but that was actually a pretty good one.

In answer to the first question, David Petts and Ken Dark off the top of my head but I'll check up on things. The main evidence is the continued use of pagan shrines and far more common pagan iconography in comparison to Christian iconography. You make the point exactly about the Vita Germani: we get loads of sources about dealing with heresy in the late Roman world that make no reference to pagans. I likewise hold a view that deurbanisation probably contributed immensely to the spread of Christianity, but in the sense of a more Christian urban population spreading their religion to the country, reflected in pagenses etymology and toponomy.

While of course I broadly agree with you, and the Warlord Chronicles have a great deal of basis in John Morris's late career flight of fancy, I would somewhat disagree on the point that the Britons had been thoroughly Christianised for some time. Evidence for Christianity in Roman Britain is relatively limited and the general view is that the political elite were still mostly pagan at the begninning of the fifth century, reflecting the better-attested situation in other parts of the Western Roman Empire. The fifth century is usually regarded as the time in which the Britons became Christian, partly because Gildas's writings from the mid-sixth-century indicate that the elite was thoroughly Christianised by that time. Patrick is more difficult, as his floruit is less clear, but his letter about Coroticus indicates a Christianised elite and a generally Christianised society. But Muiretach's identification of Coroticus as a king of Alt Clut is questionable, and we don't really know where Coroticus was from. Ultimately, we don't really know how Christian British elites were in the late fifth century, when the Warlord Chronicles are set. Ultimately I agree with the broad suggestion, but we really don't know how pagan or Christian Britain was at that time.

Bacon these days nearly always contains sodium nitrate and sodium nitrate, which are carcinogens, but absolutely brilliant at killing bacteria. Few foods are so safe.

*sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite

To respectfully disagree, industries can become completely unprofitable without this reaching wider conciousness, especially in a society where news travels slowly. Undoubtedly there would be plenty of people in Lannisport who knew that work had dried up, but the great houses throughout a land the size of Westeros probably wouldn't have a clue as long as the Lannisters kept spending. Remember, gold-mining is relatively labour-unintensive in comparison to the wealth it produces, and in a medieval society the number of people directly economically involved in mining is comparitively tiny.

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Yeah, that can certainly be the way with some local archaeology societies. I only know a few people up in Scotland but DM me some of the details of the area and I might (feasibly, can't promise anything) be able to put you in touch with someone at some point. It's a brilliant part of the world for environmental archaeology.

If you have a bit of money tucked away, then you could get AMS 14C done. There are several places here in Britain that do it very well (SUERC is really the best in my opinion), but it costs at least a good £300 per batch (depending on the size of the sample). It would certainly be better to go through a local archaeological society to get it done even though you'd still have to stump up the money yourself. Dendrochronology is a rarer specialism and you'll struggle to get it unless you know a dendrochonologist or have institutional backing and funding.

u/XenophonTheAthenian wrote extensively on this here.

To briefly summarise to more directly answer your question, the answer is that these are Latinisations of Celtic names. Making names from foreign languages sound more familiar is a common theme throughout history, but Latin (as opposed to say, French) also has the element of grammatical cases, meaning that non-Latin names need to be given Latin endings to make sense in Latin sentences.

The whole asking the Holy Roman Emperor (her brother) to invade France, which he ultimately did, wasn't that great either.

You're going to have a hard time convincing me that the authors of Moliant Cadwallon or Armes Prydein Fawr weren't fans of a Welsh national identity.

Equally, the mention of Kent and the Isle of Wight being Jutish comes from a single mention in Bede. It's nowhere in the Kentish law codes. Decades before Bede, Ine's law code refers to culturally Germanic people in Wessex as English.

The thing is that Scottish, unlike English and Welsh, was not originally a cultural identity, but a political one. Gaelic was the language of the elite and displaced Pictish, but not English (which in turn displaced Cumbric). Whether Northumberland and Cumberland (and arguably the whole of the North in the case of David I) would be in England or Scotland was contested well into the twelfth century. Bede's conception of the Scotti was one of language and culture and thoroughly different from the idea of Scotland which existed by the time of Robert the Bruce and Bannockburn.

As well as the ruin of Doriath and the fall of Gondolin. Hurin seeing what happened to his children is how the Hadorian cycle ultimately weaves back into the tale of the jewels.

Just a woman who looks like his genetically engineered daughter. Don't think about it too hard.

To be fair Our Friends in the North wasn't a cult hit, it was BBC2's most-watched drama series until 2001.

Within living memory in the USA, people with just one black great-great-grandparent were regarded as black and were legally prohibited from marrying white people. Of course many moved, said they were white and were treated as white.

Precisely Izzard's original point.

Street violence and duels between the partisans of the republican and monarchist factions.

It always annoys me when people go all 'technically' with the foundation of states. It's very 'do you have a flag?'

But surely it is inevitably a subordinate space predicated specifically on the dominance of the English language and English culture?

I always think the fact that far more English people than Scottish and Welsh people view themselves as British first (or only) says something. Same how they like to mention their Scottish or Welsh grandparents.