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Pagans | James Alistair Henry

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The worldbuilding never entirely makes sense (much more would need to change than just no Norman conquest in order to change the world in these ways), but the mystery part isn't bad and I got to rather like Aedith and Drustan. Light pick, with huge caveats about the worldbuilding.

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shanaqui

Pagans | James Alistair Henry

Hmmmm. I don't know what to make of this so far. All the flipping round of real-world prejudices takes some catching up with, and I'm not sure it's not going to work out to something profoundly offensive.

Clare-Dragonfly Reading the blurb—not sure I see how the lack of a Norman conquest would have prevented Britain from becoming Christianized?! 2mo

shanaqui @Clare-Dragonfly Yeah, it doesn't really explain that, given that Anglo-Saxons, the Norse and the Celts *all* converted or had subgroups that did. I've seen a few comments about that never really making sense. 2mo

Faranae ...Christianity arrived on the British Isles with the Romans... how does he explain St. Alban?! Augustine of Cantebury??? When does he think the Venerable Bede lived?! Did he miss the bit where the Vikings liked to sack monasteries because of the incredibly good loot? Does he think the loot just magically appears without a large population base to tithe/tax? By 1066, Christianity was definitely not a tiny minority religion there! 2mo

shanaqui @Faranae So far the background history hasn't been explained much at all. I'm picking up some stuff but mostly I'm lost on it, it's been more interested in details like Celts being discriminated against and Saxons running the show. (The Celts also do not seem to be Welsh at all, the language etc all seems to be Irish, although the Irish are said to be not involved and to be allied with China.) 2mo

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