| Two Steps From Hell – Star Sky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[zoe1158846:24269] Magnus also settled Britons in Galicia, hence the early medieval diocese of Britonia. It was from this region that the Reconquista began: the local people’s relentless efforts created Portugal and Spain. Galicia is home to the shrine to St James (also specially honoured in Brittany) and to the Tower of Hercules, an Iron Age lighthouse that still operates. Its light points, as ever, north across the Celtic Sea to the British Isles. |
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| Two Steps From Hell – Star Sky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Just searched for the singer’s surname: it’s from the Latin for blacksmith, and is common in France and Portugal. Most curiously, the Ferrers who crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror are from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire in Upper Normandy, but the whole town is proudly Breton! It’s near Breteuil, one of several places across northern France in the region where the Galician general Magnus Maximus settled his British soldiers in 383. A nearby settlement is St-Aubin-du-Thenney, where the Tobins come from. It is one of countless locales across Northern Europe named for St Aubin of Angers, a late antique Breton native of Vannes, the home of the Sovereign House that gave to Europe’s royalty the ermine and to the common people prosperity, Parliament and to us all, large parts of the legend of King Arthur. |
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| Two Steps From Hell – Star Sky Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Alternatives: Two tender lovers separated by tragic circumstance and misunderstandings, or by great responsibilities, like: Alan Rufus and Eadgifu the Fair; Alan again and Gunhildr Harold’s daughter; Abelard and Héloise; Lady White Jasmine and a young prince of the Éireann. Or: Kindred spirits separated by a gulf of time or space. Ships that pass in the night. A brilliant collaboration that was all too short. |
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