Heros (or rather, heroines)
Haggridd
jkusalavagemd at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 21 19:26:02 UTC 2004
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Haggridd:
> > How about
> Boudicea of the Angles??
Methinks thy time line is confused. ;-)
> Boadicea (Boudicca) was queen of the Iceni, an Iron Age tribe,
centuries
> before the Angles arrived in Britain. She fought the Roman
invaders; the Angles
> arrived at the end of the Roman occupation bringing with them
their famous
> Anglo-Saxon attitudes (at least according to Sellars and Yeatman).
Boudicca
> certainly had attitude, but it wasn't Anglo-Saxon.
> ~Eloise
>
You're right; I'm wrong. Boudicca (many spellings) was indeed queen
of the celtic Iceni, and opposed the Romans.
Haggridd the Abashed
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