Posted on 08/15/2006 7:52:05 AM PDT by Marius3188
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Amazing how early Christianity took hold on those islands. Kind of ironic when you contemplate this history that the lead church in the Catholic world is in Rome.
Why is it ironic?
I think he's using the Alanis Morissette definition of ironic - Don't you think?
Cool.
"The team say tthe discovery of Caer Caradoc, a pre-Roman British city is a severe embarrassment to academics who take no notice of Welsh records."
Why do academics ignore Welsh records?
TIM:
To the north there lies a cave-- the cave of Caerbannog-- wherein, carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Olfin Bedwere of Rheged...
[boom]
...make plain the last resting place of the most Holy Grail.
ARTHUR:
Where could we find this cave, O Tim?
TIM:
Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
Probably the same reason why they ignore biblical records as well. Because, in their mind, "It can't be true."
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John Cleese spits like a maniac in that scene!
What a strange, partisan sort of article.
Is that where the only irony is that she wrote a song called "Ironic" with multiple false examples of irony?
This is really an interesting find! I hope that in future we get to hear the further developments. Its exciting! (Especially being a Catholic, as this relates to or touches on the earliest heritage of our Church.)
Actually, "Welsh" comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning
"foreigner".
Ironic since the Welsh of the psot-Roman period were the original inhabitants of Britain.
Now if archeologists in Wales could just find all those missing vowels ...
LOL!
Bingo
If uncovering a historic site makes a difference to the national economy, Wales must must be at an economic standstill.
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