MostlyTato on Nostr: Kind of an in built risk in inviting over mercenaries and a perfect vacuum for them ...

Kind of an in built risk in inviting over mercenaries and a perfect vacuum for them to fill after 410AD! The Dark Age incursions kind of set the tone for a time that must have been full of turmoil. Iirc there was a bubonic plague too? Christianity via Ireland, Pagan Angles, Saxons, Jutes, sub Romano-British and Brythonic natives, it's no coincidence that the Arthurian myth arguably has its nebulous origins in this period.