The barbarians use the swine-array which we have seen before.
Irish people that I have known would be amused by this description of their country:
"Hibernia was a proverb for squalor and backward savagery, full of chanting robed Druids making human sacrifices and tattooed, head-hunting lunatics with lime-bleached hair, still driving war chariots to battle." (p. 220)
(Elsewhere and longer ago, Krishna was Arjuna's charioteer at the Battle of Kurukshetra where He spoke the Bhagavad Gita.)
Artorius is from a country:
"'...west even of Hibernia; they call it America.'" (ibid.)
West and in one other direction. The future is another country.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The druids did perform human sacrifices, and we know from the Andersons THE KING OF YS that Irish chieftains still collected the heads of defeated enemies in the late fourth century AD.
Ad astra! Sean
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