Re: In defence of Monarchy

At 23:36 12/02/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Thomas Anderson wrote 
>
>> > >	I don't know what 'Anglian' means... >>
>> >
>> > I *think* that it means someone of European desent.
>> 
>> the angles were a tribe of britons living in eastern england years
back
>> when the romans invaded. 
>
><shudders at hearing an Englishman abuse his own historical heritage
like
>that> 
>
>No, they weren't. The Angles where a germanic people who first raided
>Roman Britain and then, when the Romans withdrew completely in the 5th
>century CE, moved in along with their neighbours the Saxons and the
Jutes
>and conquered what is now called England from the romanized Britons. 
>
>Here endeth the lesson,

I thought that sounded more correct.  Then again most of what I know
about
the Angles history is drawn from that venerable old boardgame
"Brittania".
Blue team if I remember rightly.  I think I'm displaying all the signs
of a
misspent youth...

>Oerjan Ohlson
>oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
>"Life is like a sewer.
>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
>- Hen3ry
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