Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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Roman with Scandinavian ancestry lived in Britain between AD100 and AD300, long before the Anglo-Saxons or Vikings arrived research shows
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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The name for Britain comes from our ancient love of tattoos
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"Old King Cole was a merry old soul" - and possibly a real king in post-Roman Britain
I'm reading a book called 'British Kings & Queens', and there's a mention of a king called Coelius, who may have been the inspiration for the nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole'. I've done some research...
I'm reading a book called 'British Kings & Queens', and there's a mention of a king called Coelius, who may have been the inspiration for the nursery rhyme 'Old King Cole'.
I've done some research and found this local history about "Coel Hen (the Old) aka Coelius (of Ayrshire)" (sadly, the accompanying pictures seem to have disappeared).
He seems to have been in power around the early 400s A.D. - about the time that the Romans exited Britain. His domain included Ayrshire in modern-day Scotland.
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The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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