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...This goes all the way back to, but by no means began with, the Anglo-Saxons, who reserved a special name for the sea: hron-rād or whale road....
...His 2017 album Peasant was set in an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in which characters tarried and smote....
...Since Stigand, the Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, refused to crown William, his place was taken by the more obliging Archbishop of York, though the proceedings did not go entirely as planned....
...Which all leads to strange behaviour, not least among visiting Saxons. A friend who came one July said he walked into Furnace Creek gas station and the attendant asked: “Are you German or British?”...
...Russian president Vladimir Putin blamed “the Anglo-Saxons” for the damage....
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...In 1950s Mumbai, the frozen corpse of an Anglo-Saxon man is discovered in the Himalayan foothills; he is quickly dubbed “The Ice Man” by the media....
...Sure enough, in his bag Barrett carries handwritten notes of each Saxon and Viking name with annotated phonetic guides. The book’s prologue begins with a verse in Anglo-Saxon English....
...Richard II’s penchant for decadent portraits provokes the question: would he have made a splash on social media?...
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...The search for merit went down some dark alleys, such as phrenology, the study of skulls which was believed to “prove” that there were hierarchies of intelligence, with Anglo-Saxons up top and people of...
...France’s Emmanuel Macron led the charge with caustic criticism of “Anglo-Saxon” countries that he accused of blocking exports of vaccines and vital materials....
...This culinary treat was, he noted in his maiden speech in the House of Lords, first served by a predecessor named Ordwulf, Saxon Ealdorman of Devon, who “ordered bread, cream and jam for workers rebuilding...
...autobiographical novel, John le Carré describes his protagonist, the morally compromised double agent Magnus Pym, as having an agile stride, “his body forward-sloping in the best tradition of the Anglo-Saxon...
...In the villages, the churches are ecclesiastic fortresses among the old Saxon houses, as if they feared the Mongols might return at any moment to interrupt Sunday mass....
...A more common application of rush work today is chair seating, a speciality of young furniture-makers Sam Cooper and Richard Platt....
...But for now, he remains busy making pieces for Anglo-Saxon fans — his replica of the Alfred Jewel is particularly popular....
...The Anglo Saxons knew them as “bēacens”; their 14th-century descendants as “bekyns”....
...The bombing of the Saxon cities, including Leipzig and Chemnitz, was a British decision to sow confusion and help the advancing Red Army, not a Soviet request....
...The action in John Dryden’s accompanying play opens with a battle in which King Arthur sees off the Saxons, appropriately on St George’s Day....
...Instead of the present federalism by stealth, he would like to see a written constitution that would revive representative institutions in England-outside-London — a return, if you like, of the Anglo-Saxon...
...But whereas Peasant was set in an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the Dark Ages, 2020 dramatises the lives of today’s Britons....
...The ancient poem “The Dream of the Rood” is a remarkable example of early Anglo-Saxon literature and, although the poet is unknown, there are signs it may be Northumbrian in origin....
...The drama follows hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg, played by German actor Alexander Dreymon, who is a warrior caught between warring Anglo Saxons and Vikings in ninth-century England....
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