To be pedantic, both post-date old saxons (I'd take these to be the
pre-Norman saxons)
:P
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> From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Did the old saxons have much to do with black ladies??P
>
> There's a poem by William Dunbar (a typically male chavanist Dunbar
> composition) about one, so they were around in medieval Scotland.
>
> Not to mention the obvious Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
>
> A Pedantic Rodent
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