Talk:Alfred Duggan
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[edit] Titles
Children of the Wolf and Founding Fathers are two titles for the same book [1]. And the date for Elephants and Castles is 1965, not 1973.
I have added descriptions where I remembered the book.--GwydionM 20:10, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I suspect Alfred the Great is a rebranding of The King of Athelney. And both Besieger of Cities and Castles are probably duplicates of Elephants and Castles. The Romans may be another duplicate.--GwydionM 20:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
I could also find no details of Sword of Pleasure. It is not the same as The sword of pleasure by Peter Green. --GwydionM 21:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
- Congratulations on the update, Norvinl.--GwydionM 18:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] To Streona
What you put was too partisan. I don't like the Norman heritage either, but this is a reference work. I'm not familiar with the works you cited, but it would be nice to add a quote and say something like "this is much more pro-Norman than most historians". --GwydionM 17:07, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
He started it !
I was somewhat irritated to read in my reproduction Look & Learn from Alfred Duggan that the Norman Conquest was in order to help out the English and that William had an hereditary claim to the throne(from Ethelred the Unready's brother-in-law) although he fails to mention that a third of the population were massacred. Against which the Viking raids stopped and slavery was abolished in 1102, so I am not entirely partisan (though he is). Unfortunately I have chucked it out. I believe that his book "The Cunning of the Dove" advances the thesis that the whole thing was a wizard wheeze set up by Edward the Confessor, which may be so, but not thereby a good idea.Streona 23:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
