The Battle of Hastings Isn't Over
unherd.comThere's a long history of mythologizing (and rooting for) the Saxons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxonism_in_the_19th_cen...
There is an even longer history of denigration of the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes and mythologizing the Normans, but 11th century animosities were a different phenomenon that the modern British use of those groups as political symbols.