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To: SunkenCiv

My last offically issued Army dog tags list my religion as “Druid.”


8 posted on 11/03/2007 11:02:18 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: ASA Vet

Somewhere along the line (and years ago) I read that “druid” is a transliteration of the term “daru vid”, which translates “to know the oak”. :’)

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/chap_page.jsp;jsessionid=6BC8A2170818A1C696BA8354A271D4CD?t_id=Borrow&c_id=36&cpub_id=0

“Derw, an oak; Daru, timber”


11 posted on 11/03/2007 11:33:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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