From: "Christopher Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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I think a better case can be made for Wulfstan.
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Indeed. A sort of Martin Luther King with hwæts.
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Yeah -- occurred to me that if I had been there, I'd have been bored out if
my skull listening to yet *another* Homily from Aelfric, but with Wulfstan,
sitting nursing whatever was the 10thC equivalent to a hand-forged
Kalashnikov, the sub-text was, "Go out and nuke those imperialist Roman
buggers!"
... which is why I was mildly surprised you cited Alf rather than the Wolf.
Jus' a thot.
Robin
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