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'pseudo history'
having been accused by a visitor of providing 'pseudo history' in various sections of this
webpage, i would like to point out that much of what we know as history (especially that of the
earliest times) is highly subjective and the best one can do most times is sift throught the biases
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"754 AD: Bonifatius bij Dokkum vermoord" (old Dutch history lesson)
Beda Venerabilis (the venerable Bede 673-735), Anglo-Saxon cleric and scholar,
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.
Adam von Bremen (d 1081), Teutonic cleric and scholar, Gesta Hamburgens is Ecclesiae
Pontificum.
Ari Torgilsson (1067-1148), Icelandic cleric and scholar, Islendingabok and Landnamabok.
Geoffry of Monmouth (c.ll00-c.1154), Welsh chronicler and ecclesiastic, Historia Regum
Britanniae.
Saxo Grammaticus (1150-1220), Danish cleric and scholar, Gesta Danorum.
Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241). Icelandic scholar and politician, Ynglingasaga.
All writers of (largely fictitious) polemic histories aimed at creating historical legitimization of sovereign kingship by links to indigenous heathen traditions of genealogies of gods and to prove uninterrupted descent of royal houses.
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