<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:01:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/saxons/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #17/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[CHAPTER V—ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANECanute reigned eighteen years. He was a merciless King at first. After he had clasped the hands of the Saxon chiefs, in token of the sincerity with which he swore]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-17-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-17-210</guid><category><![CDATA[saxons]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:10:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #16/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[To crown this misery, English officers and men deserted, and even the favourites of Ethelred the Unready, becoming traitors, seized many of the English ships, turned pirates against their own country,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-16-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-16-210</guid><category><![CDATA[saxons]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:26:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #15/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[When he died, the monks settled that he was a Saint, and called him Saint Dunstan ever afterwards. They might just as well have settled that he was a coach-horse, and could just as easily have called him]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/danes/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-15-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/danes/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-15-210</guid><category><![CDATA[danes]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:53:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #10/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[That he might divide his time exactly, he had wax torches or candles made, which were all of the same size, were notched across at regular distances, and were always kept burning. Thus, as the candles]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/lanthorns/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-10-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/lanthorns/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-10-210</guid><category><![CDATA[lanthorns]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:57:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Mystery of Edwin Drood #8/166]]></title><description><![CDATA[CHAPTER IIITHENUNS’ HOUSEFOR SUFFICIENT REASONSwhich this narrative will itself unfold as it advances, a fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town. Let it stand in these pages as]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cloisterham/@prose/literature-charles-dickens-the-mystery-of-edwin-drood-8-166</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cloisterham/@prose/literature-charles-dickens-the-mystery-of-edwin-drood-8-166</guid><category><![CDATA[cloisterham]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[prose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:27:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #7/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kent is the most famous of the seven Saxon kingdoms, because the Christian religion was preached to the Saxons there (who domineered over the Britons too much, to care for what theysaid about their religion,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/wessex/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-7-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/wessex/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-7-210</guid><category><![CDATA[wessex]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:59:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #6/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[They were in such distress, in short, that they sent a letter to Rome entreating help—which they called the Groans of the Britons; and in which they said, ‘The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-6-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-6-210</guid><category><![CDATA[saxons]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:36:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #5/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[And still, at last, as at first, the Britons rose against them, in their old brave manner; for, a very little while before, they had turned away the Roman magistrates, and declared themselves an independent]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/romans/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-5-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/romans/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-5-210</guid><category><![CDATA[romans]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:41:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Child's History of England #4/210]]></title><description><![CDATA[His noble air, and dignified endurance of distress, so touched the Roman people who thronged the streets to see him, that he and his family were restored to freedom. No one knows whether his great heart]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-4-210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/saxons/@briefs/literature-charles-dickens-a-child-s-history-of-england-4-210</guid><category><![CDATA[saxons]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[briefs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:34:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The A-Z of the Old World Teutonic race (AKA the Anglo Saxons)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The A Z of the Old World Teutonic race (AKA the Anglo Saxons) Today we discuss the differences in this dictionary between the Anglo-Saxon write up and the Norman write up. I contemplate famous figure heads]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-140662/@livingthetruth11/the-a-z-of-the-old-world-teutonic-race-aka-the-anglo-saxons</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-140662/@livingthetruth11/the-a-z-of-the-old-world-teutonic-race-aka-the-anglo-saxons</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-140662]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livingthetruth11]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e4Hzw7p7zEgYEUWDgFwwWvnxfVDAeqWuUqC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-Z of The Old World| Armour, 1000 years of peace]]></title><description><![CDATA[A-Z of The Old World| A is for Armour, after 1000 years of peace AKA Millennial Kingdom #oldworld#oldworld #oldwars #shortseason #millenialkingdom #peacetime Thank you for liking, sharing, commenting and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-140662/@livingthetruth11/a-z-of-the-old-worldor-armour-1000-years-of-peace</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-140662/@livingthetruth11/a-z-of-the-old-worldor-armour-1000-years-of-peace</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-140662]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[livingthetruth11]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eF83JhK16q3nPhq8YM9pj9wXzE3ESGeoeCN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[In search of Saxon kings]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the famous archaeological sites in the UK is Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. In the 1930's a burial mound was excavated to reveal amazingly intricate objects that were burried with a Saxon king, thought]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@steevc/in-search-of-saxon-kings</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@steevc/in-search-of-saxon-kings</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[steevc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:54:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FUkUE5bzkAZT3HzV5tJDiU2ik81PCd4JCyhWnRcDN8XJsVFY3UNB8DCcGoVAx5pQ7yr9ob4A2c5QdtyYhQg5ffYuemiYeKAVg9n9bU3v7a22sHguo1atQhLVpFkuLtc4M6SHqcfb1JVt4bBZhQfnxJJBWymauPDz5Uwp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norwich city castle]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is Norwich city castle of Norman origins (which is now a museum and art gallery), shot from the market place in Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. Find out more about the castle here:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@donkeysworld/norwich-city-castle-2018-7-3-10-49-40</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/photography/@donkeysworld/norwich-city-castle-2018-7-3-10-49-40</guid><category><![CDATA[photography]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[donkeysworld]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:49:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3HaJVvr6qfoEFgBir1jy4DeK1wwhDm7oNHzc1b8roaJY8MKhB35c8zhg9RE3JWBPXpiT11sfreqMtxSCc28LjSxbHzzKXicdh6XvXJE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The History Behind Vikings: Part II - The Anglo Saxons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Colour photograph of a modern replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet. A lot of the historical inaccuracies in Vikings are actually in relation to how the TV series depicts the Anglo-Saxons. The depictions of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@steem-beat/the-history-behind-vikings-part-ii-the-anglo-saxons</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@steem-beat/the-history-behind-vikings-part-ii-the-anglo-saxons</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[steem-beat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:48:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHVQPjDcGkFxELgGtwNAntRtiqDuEyxvSKrfsT8epa8VWJXzxY2FRyoW5jvvEqgXYxmHJn65jE2mBDT9AA65BzNxtr7i8Edn9BiWE9RsUzBEvcaE5kNCmX1BNwDLa9Wzz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>