The video below features the concluding essay (or short story) from Dark Albion: A Requiem for the English by David Abbott, as read by the author.
It’s about the final grim days of William, son of Charles, the last king of England, in the year 2066. King William is facing the unavoidable transfer of power from the original Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of Britain to their new Muslim overlords. The imminent deal will be sealed by the marriage of King William’s granddaughter to a Muslim.
William’s father revised the royal oath upon his accession to the throne, promising to be the “Defender of Faiths” rather than the “Defender of the Faith”. After William there will be no more oaths, and there will be only the One True Faith — the one that demands submission:
From Dymphna to Anonimy: bless your heart. And here I thought for sure we said goodbye. Remember your comment of the other day?
I feel that you both are unpleasant people, antisocial freaks.
It’s all still there, son:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/04/why-islam-is-a-racist-doctrine/#comment-507117
So why did you come back?
Your comments won’t be published now or in the future. Besides, you misspelled “phenomenal”.
I find the speech of this narration interesting, in an accent I am unfamiliar with. Is it associated with some region in England? At 8:48 is the word “respectin'”, and at 8:35 (“corrupt”) and and 9:57 (“foreigners”) the r-sounds are a bit w-like, which I understand is characteristic of a kind of high-class dialect.
He’s from South London. His accent is traditional London, but he is trying to sound more ‘proper’ by speaking slowly and enunciating his words more carefully than he probably does in everyday speech.
The Rs sounding like Ws I wasn’t sure about, some English people just seem to speak like this (including TV host Jonathan Ross and ex-England soccer manager Roy Hodgson) but I found the following link which explains it a bit and it does seem it’s mostly common to a subset of Londoners (working class, not high-class), which rings true in my experience, indeed Messrs Ross and Hodgson are both Londoners.
http://dialectblog.com/2011/02/07/jonathan-ross-and-the-letter-r/
For a compelling look at how “Scots Irish -English” laid the basis for our Southern accent (both white and black variations) see Thomas Sowell’s book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rednecks_and_White_Liberals
The book, like “Albion” is a series of essays.
Here’s our page link for “Black Rednecks”…
We used to have this book, but I think it went to Europe with the Baron (as a gift) when he traveled to various events. Even the price of the used versions haven’t dropped much since it was written.
Sowell is one of our leading conservative public intellectuals.
Thanks, I’ll have a look for it. I love Thomas Sowell too, the first person I found to make economics interesting to learn and of course he’s endlessly quotable.
Look also at his friend and fellow economist, Walter Williams. He’s been teaching at George Mason since the early 80s and is still going strong.
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/archive.html
You can find some of his material at that page.
It is Cockney, London working class, with the absence of the R sound a personal defect of the author.