Patriotic History: Goths, Huns and Saxons – PH 082922

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/PH/ph%20090222.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1371" src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/PH/ph%20090222.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://gab.com/SvenLongshanks" target="_blank"><strong>Sven Longshanks</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.radioalbion.com/search/label/Grandpa%20Dan?&amp;max-results=5" target="_blank"><strong>PatriArt</strong></a> discuss the situation in Europe at the end of the Roman empire.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Around the 4th century AD various Germanic tribes appeared, at first becoming mercenaries for Rome and then holding her to ransom for huge sums of gold.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Alaric the Goth and Atilla the Hun being notable leaders of those tribes from this time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Saxons were the most feared of these fledgling nations, first appearing in the histories under that name in 140AD.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The British King Constantine II was proclaimed emperor and took his British army to Rome to fight against the barbarian hordes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">This left Britain with very little military defence and the Saxon of the Seas took advantage of this to prepare their invasion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Quotes are taken from RW Morgan and Wikipedia</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Notes for this episode can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/PH/PH%2048.odt" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">HERE</span></b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presented by Sven Longshanks and PatriArt</span></em></p><p><strong><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: ve