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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