[Regia-NA] Depressed Anglo-Saxons?

[mik lawson]

Erm,it's 06.44 in the morning at the moment.I could walk outside in a t shirt & if it's anything like yesterday by 8am it's going to be very hot.You can never trust Englands weather to do anything you would expect?
Regards,
Mik

Jeffrey Blaisdell <jdb967 at earthlink.net> wrote:
Look at the weather in England-- wouldn't you be perpetually depressed, too?

Jeffrey Blaisdell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Michalski" 
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Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:14 PM
Subject: [Regia-NA] Depressed Anglo-Saxons?


> In many of the secondary sources that I've read
> (essays on 'The Seafarer', for example, or 'Beowulf',
> or studies of Anglo-Saxon art), A-S culture is often
> described as bleak and pessimistic. You get an image
> of fur-clad depressives sitting in mud huts, trying to
> stay out of the incessant drizzle and singing about
> how life stinks. And this contrasts strongly with the
> cliches about happy Celts dancing with leprechauns in
> sunny oak groves, or partying with talking salmon.
> 
> Have any of you picked up this same message from your
> reading? Or have any of you come across books that
> give historically sound but less gloomy pictures of
> Anglo-Saxon culture? 
> 
> Interested in the groups thoughts,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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