And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Geats were early Swedes. Ancestry says I'm a Swede, both my Grandparents came from Denmark and spoke Danish I've identified as Danish because of that. So now I'm related to Putin via the Rus?
Beowulf/Bee Wolf/a bear, as bears eat honey. A kenning. Too, "bee wolf" might also be a euphemism so that the word "bear" would not actually be uttered thus avoiding conjuring up the dangerous beast. A "taboo word".
Geats were early Swedes. Ancestry says I'm a Swede, both my Grandparents came from Denmark and spoke Danish I've identified as Danish because of that.
ReplyDeleteSo now I'm related to Putin via the Rus?
Beowulf/Bee Wolf/a bear, as bears eat honey.
ReplyDeleteA kenning.
Too, "bee wolf" might also be a euphemism so that the word "bear" would not actually be uttered thus avoiding conjuring up the dangerous beast. A "taboo word".