We live in Elmet, the buffer state between Mercia and Northumbria. Periodically King Penda and hordes of heathen Brummies come up the M6 to attempt to take our land off us. The Christian Northumbrians come down the A1 to oppose them - on our ground. Its not good - horse crap and broken spears all over the place, and you can't move for bloody missionaries - brummie wiccans and geordie christians brainwashing our kids at every ford. All we want is to be left alone to get on with our allotments. (The Romano-Celtic kingdom of Elmet was finally absorbed after bloody battles into Northumbria around 650 AD) the missionaries are still here
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