tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post5617408742119040791..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: On Stamford BridgeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-20350528747744034222012-05-31T18:37:07.142+01:002012-05-31T18:37:07.142+01:00Hi, WY. Yes, and another line that even now has me...Hi, WY. Yes, and another line that even now has me suppressing a tear:<br /><br />Churchill, in response to the defeatists in his Cabinet in 1940:<br /><br />'If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.'Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-66500273457948981012012-05-31T10:20:13.664+01:002012-05-31T10:20:13.664+01:00Neither, afaik, do we know the name of the man who...Neither, afaik, do we know the name of the man who wrote this, or anything more than name of the man into whose mouth he put the words:<br /><br />"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað"<br /><br />But somehow it too resonates down the centuries.<br /><br />As an Essex man myself, for whom Maldon holds happy memories, I find it hard to read this without a nostalgic tear springing to the eye.<br /><br />And of course it would apply equally to us today as we face the incroaching bureaucratic hordes from across the Channel...Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-51107676982837336142012-05-24T21:59:45.431+01:002012-05-24T21:59:45.431+01:00Haven't I already read this?Haven't I already read this?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-30948042828760358482012-05-24T16:41:40.201+01:002012-05-24T16:41:40.201+01:00Thank you, Wildgoose, it's comments like yours...Thank you, Wildgoose, it's comments like yours that make the effort worthwhile.<br /><br />Yes, like yourself I think the subject invites us to reflect on our present identity crisis.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-19520463849129315392012-05-24T09:03:57.406+01:002012-05-24T09:03:57.406+01:00Thanks for this piece. I have often wondered what...Thanks for this piece. I have often wondered what would have happened if the Normans had been repulsed.<br /><br />England at that time was the richest and most advanced nation in Western Europe. It was English missionaries that Christianised Germany. It was to England that Charlemagne turned for the Latin scholars he needed for his reborn "Holy Roman Empire". And it is in England that Europe's oldest vernacular literature is to be found. How much more would have survived and how much more would we have achieved if the Norman's genocidal reign of terror had not occurred?<br /><br />And would the British Isles have been more harmonious if the English had not been blamed for the ongoing Norman rapacity and conquest?<br /><br />As Devolution tears the United Kingdom apart I hope that a reborn England can recapture that spirit of achievement and reaching for the future.Wildgoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595915411975940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-45579634723146724892012-05-23T14:06:46.036+01:002012-05-23T14:06:46.036+01:00Studies have shown that memories are much more pow...Studies have shown that memories are much more powerful than facts, and that implanted memories are stronger than real ones. Perhaps this is also true of collective memory.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.com