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What's New OR: 'Yo, ladies ... What's happenin ? Whatever Next ? [ Downs Lord Triptych / The Two Confessions / Amy-Faith & the Stronghold] | Dispatch dated 7th July 2004
****** I've added two short essays to 'As a historian ...' First, there's 'Angles, Saxons, Normans & Vandals ( & Scots )', a spiel inspired by a 'discovery' made during a trip to Battle Abbey in Sussex, mournful site of the biggest disaster to ever hit the English people ( though Henry VIII runs close second ). Next is 'Looking For New England', which started life as a talk about a little known but amazing incident in English history, given to a Science Fiction convention in Portsmouth ( 'that horrid place' as per Admiral Nelson in 1803 ). It was subsequently written up as an article at the request of the proprietor of '3SF Magazine', and published in its inaugural issue in 2002.
****** A request to anybody out there with specialist knowledge, particularly of Old English. I've noticed a recent development of people 'Gaelicising' or 'Scotticising' their names, plus little books of 'Names for Cornish Children' and such. Is a similar thing possible with English personal names, grafting on whatever degree of 'Old Englishness' ? For instance, could there be an Old English equivalent to John, even it were only the one in most common usage, much as the Russian 'Ivan' corresponds to our 'John' ?
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