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Hic, Hic, Hic, cried the Talking Wolf.
The English of today celebrate St George as their patron saint, on 23rd April (date can change if it’s too close to Easter). St George, by all accounts, was a foreigner, probably of Roman origin. Who is also the patron saint of 23 countries around the world? Yet, in the 9th-century the Eastengla (Wuffingas dynasty), one of a myriad of West Germanic people, that entered Prydain/Britain between 449-1066, venerated Edmund, their slain, and martyred king (855-869), as their patron saint.
Edmund was captured by the Danes (Great Heathen Army) in a battle in 869, in what is today East Anglia, which consists basically of the modern English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire.
According to proto-English tradition of a 10th-century account of the saint’s life by Abbo of Fleury, who quotes Saint Dunstan as his source, Edmund was then bound to a tree, shot through by arrows and beheaded. His decapitated head is said to have been reunited with its body with the help of a talking wolf who protected the head and then called out “Hic, Hic, Hic” (“Here, Here, Here”) to alert Edmund’s followers.
However, there is an English faction today who, want to discard St George, for a more home-grown saint, that of St Alban, who is considered the British protomartyr. The English historian John Morris suggests that Alban’s martyrdom took place during the persecutions of Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211) in 209. However, Alban in his life had as much in common with the English, as Atahualpa had with the Spanish. Surely if the English need a saint so bad to call their own, there is St Ansgar, Olaf, Woden or even Thor, who are more akin to the medley of Germanic forefathers of the modern English. Furthermore, my concern is why the wolf spoke Latin “Hic”, and not the British language “Yma.” Unless the Eastengla had brought wolves who were Latin tongue with them when they entered Prydain/Britain in the mid-5th-century from their original homeland in Germania. We Welsh, a name given to us by these Germanic folk, which means foreigner, since the earliest time in our history. To ourselves, we are the Cymry, and have an ancient saying which covers the myriad of Germanic tribes (believers of talking wolves) when we celebrate with a drink or make merry. The saying literally is “Iechyd da i bob Cymry, a twll din i bob Sais” “Good health to every Welshmen, asshole to every Saxon.”
What do you say, on part, or all of this post?
Cofion
R&I ~ MJM
Jero Jones
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