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Anglo-Saxon Varangians

At some point around the 10th-11th centuries, people of Anglo-Saxon origin began to be recruited into the Varangian Guard. A significant influx of these mercanaries came as a result of the Norman Conquest of England, which created a notable Anglo-Saxon disaspora population in the Roman Empire. Considering this, it's strange that Anglo-Saxon characters can't recruit Varangian Veterans. This mod aims to remedy that.

Probably requires Northern Lords, but if you can use this without it, more power to you.

Compatibility: Should work with anything that doesn't modify the Hirds tradition, which means most mods.

Historicity: Anglo-Saxons are a widely accepted and relatively well-documented group present in the Roman Empire's Varangian Guard (https://deremilitari.org/2014/06/english-refugees-in-the-byzantine-armed-forces-the-varangian-guard-and-anglo-saxon-ethnic-consciousness/), however, I do not know of any significant accounts of these Varangians returning to fight for the King of England, who would have been Norman for the majority of the time that this element existed in the Guard. Additionally, they would not have been present in the Guard in the 867 start date; however, to my understanding the same is true for Huscarls as well -- the institution was more present in Scandinavia before being brought over to Britain by the Danes, so the "Hirds" tradition doesn't really make sense at all in the 867 start date.