

Maybe you’ll like https://peterraleigh.substack.com/p/the-tell-of-us-all
We might think here, as perhaps Miller and his cowriters did, of a Viking army, threatening an established kingdom with devastation, transformed into that kingdom’s nominal protectors by the grant of a duchy. Rulership means negotiation, the management of a coalition, the constant reinforcement of a power base. It is never simple, and the work is never done.












As a filthy casual this is the most distressing part.
I’ve observed the situation shift in just a few years from
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