Some may find the term “Anglo-Saxon media” confounding as that particular ethnic group lost power in Britain nearly 400 years before the invention of the printing press.
@w7voa “Æthelstan is a wolf, Olaf Guthfrithson is a fox, the Scots are sparrows, and the Britons are bumblebees” - Friedman Thomasson in The Anglo-Saxon Inquirer
I don't speak Russian, but in German and French "Anglo-Saxon" is an umbrella term for the UK, US, Canada, Australia and sometimes NZ without any racial connotations.
@pkraus@FlorianTischner@cstross@w7voa
I think English speakers are the last people in the world who get to complain about the names foreign language speakers use for them.
@duckwhistle@pkraus@FlorianTischner@w7voa Not if it's specifically a self-chosen descriptor by neo-Nazis that is being picked up and recycled in the propaganda outlets of a Nazi state (Russia).
There was a flap a few years ago when some US academics discovered that UK archaeologists and historians use the word "Anglo-Saxon". The Americans assumed that this was straight out of their country's Extreme Right, failing to understand that in the UK context it's just a convenient term for Early Medieval speakers of that language, as opposed to Celtic, Latin, Norse and French. And so they cried "Nazi".
@mrundkvist@w7voa Yeah. Similarly there are historical/linguistic contexts where the word "Aryan" isn't a Nazi dog-whistle. It's just, that's not the way to bet (outside of archaeology/linguistics/history)!
On the other hand, Scandy archaeologists spend most of our conversations with foreigners explaining that "Viking" was an occupation that a young Scandy man had for a brief period before he got killed or bought a farm and got married. Not an ethnic term. And Scandy specialists on the Viking Age mainly study other things than the overseas raids.
@mrundkvist That's very odd as were taught about Anglo-Saxons in middle school, if not earlier. In my head, I can still see my history textbook with the map covered in arrows indicating the migration of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
But this was the 1980s, who knows what passes for history education nowadays.
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