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Target: England_Early_Medieval_Anglo-Saxon_Eastry_Updown_o:EAS003.SG Distance: 1.9574% / 0.01957381 | R4P 48.0 England_Saxon 26.0 Laal_(n=1) 18.2 Berber_Mali_Tuareg_(n=3) 7.8 Tunisian_Jew_(n=10) Target: England_Early_Medieval_Anglo-Saxon_Eastry_Updown_o:EAS003.SG Distance: 2.0693% / 0.02069331 | R4P 51.6 England_Saxon 22.0 Berber_Mali_Tuareg_(n=3) 17.8 Mandinka_Gambia_(n=137) 8.6 Zaghawa_Sudan_(n=31)

It appears from these models that my Frankish theory doesn’t quite work. Her best fits give her just a little France/Belgium/Italy which I think is all covering the same admixture. But the bulk is maternal Saxon and paternally a mix of a Sahelian black population like Gambian Mandinka and a North African one like Carthaginian (Berber doesn’t fit as well but could still work). So yes she had one black grandparent, one north African grandparent and two Kentish grandparents. Other models posted below

-Rejected Christianity -known for clipping coins -names sometimes end in Stein -spoke the ancestor of modern Yiddish -loyal to tribal god -Renowned merchants -Vicious slavers But enough about ancient Germanics…who did you think I meant?

so my tldr theory for updown girl of Kent: -she was not 25% black and 74% anglo-saxon like they claim - she has middle eastern/north African ancestry -her Dad was probably half Frankish/Spanish and half black/Berber - he probably came to Kent as part of the Gregorian mission promoting Christianity in 597 which led to Æthelberht of Kent being the first English king to convert -Her father's father was a mixed black African and Berber who left North Africa probably due to Christian connections in Europe - or he was a Christian merchant (as the paper prefers) -Updown girl herself was probably alive under the rule of Æthelberht's grandson Eorcenbehrt of Kent who was the first king to defile the sacred idols of the true gods. -She probably didn't look very "black" but her Frankish grave-goods and Christian faith were both things that marked her as having connections to France.

A deep dive on a new paper which seeks to "challenge" preconceived notions of Anglo-Saxon England which was apparently "diverse" because out of the hundreds of skeletons analysed from the period, two have been found with 1/4 African ancestry. I explain who these people really were and the extent to which they were significant (they weren't) https://youtu.be/JXW7EnJj40A?feature=shared

This is Duncan Sayer, the named author on the new paper about black Anglo-Saxons. He is the archaeologist who pushed in 2022 for the Updown girl from that paper to have her own special paper just about her - which is what this is. In 2018 he published an article for Sapiens magazine in which he attacked Odinists as well as the notion that Anglo-Saxons ever existed. It included many subversive lies including the following: "The people of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries certainly did not think of themselves as Anglo-Saxons and would not have understood the description."

The authors note the updown girl, a child with an absent half black father, was buried with a comb (not unusual for the time at all) and try to link this to woke black hair politics! “The Black British artist Jade Monsterrat notes that a woman’s hair is deeply rooted in her identity and heritage, referring to the fashion of straightening hair in line with European aesthetics”

In Milleniyule 2022 i went on to discuss the Updown girl of Eastry who was only mentioned in the supplements of the large Anglo-Saxon DNA paper of that year. Because this girl had a black grandparent, they announced there would be another paper just about her. Now the paper is out (Sayer et al 2025) and of course it will be used as a culture weapon. I will address it in a stream or video soon but for now rewatch this… https://odysee.com/@millennialwoes:4/MY2022SurvivetheJive:2?r=AEKqgwkPWidrWMdxwxNjBE8p3kA9tT6n

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These maps show the origins of the "spoils of war" deposited in the bogs of Nydam and Thorsberg. Clearly there was two-way traffic from Germany and Scandinavia passing through the land of the Angles who were not always friendly towards itinerant mercenaries!

This bracteate was also deposited in a bog near the German/Danish border. It depicts the god Tiw, whom the Norse would later call Tyr - with his hand in the mouth of the wolf Fenrir

This sword chape was also found in Thorsberg bog. Dating to c. 200 AD it bears one of the earliest runic inscriptions. The side visible in my photograph reads "owlþuþewaz" and the runes on the reverse say "niwajemariz" It is thought that the first o and w are reversed due to metathesis, so that it is actually a reference to the god wolþu (OE: Wuldor, ON: Ullr). Either invoking the god or a man with a theophoric name. Therefore: "Wolthuthewaz is well-renowned," or "the servant of Wuldor, the renowned."

Two Roman-Iron-Age gilt discs from the Thorsberg Moor have differently decorated outer areas: the less well preserved one has animals (deer) while the other has a complicated combination of Germanic and Roman imagery. A reclining Romanesque figure bearing a sceptre appears in each of the four section. Is it a god? It resembles Wodenic kings of later bracteates. A combination of the same animals known from the earlier Nordic Bronze age solar drama are also depicted. 1.fish+horse. 2.duck+horse 3. ?+horse. 4. duck+fish. Each of the quadrants is separated by a solar disc motif. This shows a unique transitionary stage in Germanic art with BA elements, Roman elements and the beginning of what would become the Germanic animal style.

This silver mask from Thorsberg bog was evidently owned by a very high status military leader with clear connections to the Roman army. However it is uncertain whether it is of Germanic manufacture, influenced by Roman styles or if it is a Roman cavalry mask which was modified by its German owner - possibly cutting out the face section to increase visibility.

The moors of Denmark and North Germany preserve numerous Iron Age Germanic offerings. While bog bodies may be executed criminals (see Tacitus), and individual deposits of weapons and jewelry, hair and animals are thought to be offerings to the gods, other explanations are proposed for the deposits of vast numbers of bows, arrows, armour, swords, shields, horses and even boats. One explanation is that because many Germanics from Scandinavia had to pass through this region in order to serve in the Roman army beyond the limes, therefore they raided en route and were sometimes killed by locals who offered the defeated forces to the bogs. Indeed many of the bog finds in Denmark are non-local. The most important Germanic victim find in Germany is at Thorsberg bog. Offerings were sunk there for over 600 years. Most of the items are weapons and equipment from the beginning of the 3rd c. A.D. a time of heavy Roman influence on Germania. Pictured are Thorsberg bog finds dated to 200's

A spectacular early Anglo Saxon pendant, possibly for a horse harness, with the composite wolf man motif in the middle, with mirrored Salin-I style beasts; a bearded face becoming a wolf, or perhaps Freki, Geri and Woden together, flanked by two Salin-I style raven heads. Found in Winterbourne Whitechurch, North Dorset, 6-7th Century. ᚩ

Snake dancer animation

Here is a better photo of the first bracteate and a drawing of the image from it. This motif of a moustached man dancing with two snakes remained important in Anglo-Saxon England. It was found on a copper die from Lincolnshire which was used to stamp the foils on a bucket found at Loveden hill (second drawing). And we see it was used for another die found in 2022 in Berkshire (see photo), and a gold bracteate has also been found which was struck from this exact die. A mysterious motif that remained important long after the migration. I believe it pertains to the cult of Woden and I consider snakes to be a sacred animal for his cult.