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Err, You Missed One
Jul. 24th, 2018 08:07 amI'm currently reading a short story, "Shadows in the Wood", by Jennifer Roberson. It's a Robin Hood/Arthuriana mashup, in which Robin and Marian encounter Merlin, just freed from Nimue's prison; Merlin's goal is to so arrange things that England will never again be invaded, not by Angles and Saxons, not by Normans - by no-one.
Of course, one is meant to think of Napoleon and Hitler in reading this. Of course, that little (excuse me, Glorious) event in 1688 doesn't count as an invasion, oh no.
(I will grant that the invaders in that case were invited by a faction of the English. That doesn't make it any less an invasion.)
Of course, one is meant to think of Napoleon and Hitler in reading this. Of course, that little (excuse me, Glorious) event in 1688 doesn't count as an invasion, oh no.
(I will grant that the invaders in that case were invited by a faction of the English. That doesn't make it any less an invasion.)
