"Brutus of Troy and the Quest for the Ancestry of the British" Topic
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davejl | 07 Oct 2016 11:27 a.m. PST |
Hi. I saw Gringos at Derby and had a great chat and the service was excellent. Ged Cronin who runs Gringos40s is a mine of information and nothing seems to be too much trouble for him. In spite of being very busy, he took time to show me the new figures he's producing and was able to answer the questions about the Garibaldi range he's developing. Great time. Thanks Ged daveL. |
Tango01 | 07 Oct 2016 11:36 a.m. PST |
"Those familiar with the obsessive delights of genealogy will have realised that if you can trace your family in Britain back to 1400 you are distantly related to everyone else who can do this and hence to kings, queens and, eventually, to Charlemagne. There is something very satisfying about such a compressed personal claim upon time's immensity: no wonder the professional genealogist Anthony Adolph mentions on his book jacket that Prince George of Cambridge happens to be his 10th cousin twice removed. However, in Brutus of Troy and the Quest for the Ancestry of the British, Adolph is not essentially concerned with tracing family trees but with the links that have been constructed by fantasy-genealogy as applied to myth and legend and with the powerful meaning these constructs held for our real forebears as late as the 19th century. As he says: ‘Prince George is not really descended from Brutus, but he is descended from many, many generations of ancestors who believed they were.' Two essential facts emerge early in this intricate, fascinating and densely written account of what did-not-actually-happen but which formed a bedrock of national identity and dreaming aspiration over 1,500 years. One is that the fabled Brutus – who allegedly landed in ‘Albion' (Britain) at Totnes, slew giants, founded Oxford and London and sired a long line of kings from Arthur onwards – was nothing to do with the assassin of Julius Caesar, but was an exiled leader of the Trojans who survived the war and the destruction of Troy. The second fact is that, though Adolph ‘wanted desperately to unearth some evidence that Brutus had been a real historical character, heavily disguised by myth', he was eventually forced to recognise that he was entirely fictitious…" See more here link Amicalement Armand |
Tango01 | 07 Oct 2016 11:57 a.m. PST |
Oh!… THE BUG IS HERE!!!!!!!!! Amicalement Armand
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Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Oct 2016 6:13 p.m. PST |
The Bug loves you,Armand. |
Tango01 | 08 Oct 2016 10:23 a.m. PST |
And I HATE him/her…! (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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