You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

1
3

[–] TexasVet [S] 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

I am not a Saxon and I have begun to hate.

0
5

[–] CuriousOnlooker 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Well yeah, Saxons don't exist anymore, but my point was it still resonates strongly in its original form. It's a historical artefact. Your version says more about your feelings sure, but Rudyard's original is transcendent because it's so old, and talks of events even older.

0
1

[–] sinclair 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Exactly, they don't exist anymore.

0
0

[–] Joe_McCarthy ago 

Anglo-Saxon is still a more or less common description of the English as an ethnonym. Of course it has medieval roots but Kipling wasn't even that long ago.

0
1

[–] VoaterFraud 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

At least credit the original author. Some folks wouldn't know you altered a classic Kipling poem.

0
0

[–] TexasVet [S] ago 

Done.