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To: RoosterRedux

Kipling’s son was killed in WWI. Calling it “The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon” is the exact opposite from what he intended. Kipling entitle his poem “The Beginnings” about when the English began to hate the Germans (i.e. Saxons).


29 posted on 06/14/2023 2:52:06 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

As you know, the English are Anglo-Saxons and the Germans aren’t purely Saxon.


32 posted on 06/14/2023 3:05:06 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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