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[–] 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.

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

Exactly, they don't exist anymore.

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[–] 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.