Hastings 1066 ... not a good day for the English

Quick word to Orphans readers ... Julia's next is down for tomorrow morning ... I was going to run the 4Chan issue which comes to a head soon with Starmer's online safety bint ... we're assuming readers will just go VPN ... plus 4Chan have not the slightest intention of paying a UK imposed fine.

Meanwhile, today, this is two days late I'm afraid.  This is from The English Remnant Trad England, on X:

"The Silvatici were the last Anglo-Saxon freedom fighters who refused to submit to Norman rule after 1066. The name comes from the Latin silvaticus, meaning “of the woods” - the Normans’ way of describing the English who retreated into forests and wild country to continue the fight. After the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror seized the throne, but many Englishmen would not yield. They took to the forests, hills, and fens - living rough, striking from the shadows, and vanishing into the wild. These men were the Silvatici - forest-dwellers and outlaws, but patriots in the truest sense. They came from all walks of English society: dispossessed thegns, soldiers, and common men who would not swear loyalty to a foreign king. They saw themselves as the last defenders of their land, law, and blood. Eadric the Wild (Eadric Silvaticus) was a proud Anglo-Saxon noble from the borderlands whose resistance began soon after Hastings. He led raids on Norman outposts and fought fiercely for years, earning his name as a man of the woods. Hereward the Wake, the best-known of the Silvatici, led the resistance based around Ely. He and his followers turned the marshes and forests into a fortress, waging guerrilla war against the Normans long after others had surrendered. The Silvatici fought with ambushes, sudden attacks, and sabotage. They struck quickly at Norman garrisons, tax convoys, and collaborators, disappearing again into the woods. They lived off the land, using England’s forests and fens as their shield - sleeping under trees, eating what they could hunt, and surviving on courage, cunning, and loyalty to their kin. By the early 1070s, Norman rule had crushed most open rebellion. Yet the Silvatici lived on in English memory - the last free men of England, who chose hardship over submission. Their defiance became the seed of the later English outlaw tradition: men who lived in the greenwood and resisted tyranny. They were not mere bandits, but warriors of the old Anglo-Saxon realm - the wild men of the woods who kept England’s spirit alive when its crown had been taken. Though their names faded from record, the Silvatici embodied the unbroken will of the English - free men who would rather live wild in their own land than kneel to a foreign crown. Their spirit still whispers through England’s woods, where freedom once took refuge among the trees. There blood is in our veins."

Our Steve, across the way at Unherdables, also wrote:

"Not a good day for Harold – not a good day for England either. The bloodshed did not stop with the Battle of Hastings..

“I have persecuted the natives of England beyond all reason. Whether gentle or simple I have cruelly oppressed them; many I unjustly disinherited; innumerable multitudes perished through me by famine or the sword…I fell on the English of the northern shires like a ravening lion. I commanded their houses and corn, with all their implements and chattels, to be burnt without distinction, and great herds of cattle and beasts of burden to be butchered whenever they are found. In this way I took revenge on multitudes of both sexes by subjecting them to the calamity of a cruel famine, and so became a barbarous murderer of many thousands, both young and old, of that fine race of people. Having gained the throne of that kingdom by so many crimes I dare not leave it to anyone but God."

– William’s death bed confession according to Ordericus Vitalis AD 1130."

Something to bear in mind as we face the greatest threat since Gitler, certainly Napoleon. And still around a half of us are oblivious the the extant threat, called haters and far right, instead of steadfast and loyal.