medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
--- "V. Kerry Inman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> >
> Anyone who has any English ancestry can probably trace themselves to
> a member of
> a royal family somewhere (in Anglo-Saxon times there were always
> several) and
> since the Anglo-Saxon chronicle has geneologies linking them to Adam,
> you can,
> without fabrication, link yourself to the line. You
> have a
> geneology that not only takes you back to royalty, but to pagan gods
> (Woden)and
> Adam and Eve.
Respondeo:
And also to the prophet Mohammed, since one of the prophet's
granddaughters married into the Wessex royal family. Or so I'm told.
Bill.
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