On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 8:56 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 19:34, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > They say "you're as young as you feel" over here in the Netherlands. > > > > Gerraway - it's an English saying, or at least a Yorkshire one :) > > Yep, that's shared ancestry. Goes back to the days of Vortigern and his > band of cut-throats, when Canterbury was still called Kantelberg. > > Good fun, > HarM
Canterbury <spit> is southern - Normans, an' all that. Here in Yorkshire we had a soft spot for Tostig, Harald and all that. Read Domesday Book and you'll see that many places round here were laid waste, for rejecting Norman rule. One of our dark-age specialist historians said that Yorkshiremen preferred Vikings, and, he said, many still do! Anne
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