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no, it was adopted in 1350 when Edward III created the modern orders of chivalry, because to a Norman/Frenchman ST Edmund was too English and Saxon.

Well there you go. Late blow-in selected. Thanks for that.

Bloody foreigners. Coming over here with their fancy saints and primogeniture. The king should be selected by a council of the wise or a reality show phone in vote.

Dog who drinks paint wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:24 pm

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:48 am I'm looking at the Nickstarter for Stargrave. Freebies look nice so far but I don't need 20 figure box sets. May end up swapping or selling spare sprues.

Buff, I will take spare sprues off you. No interest in the rules but I fancy the figures for some klutzy paw-friendly conversion potential.

I'll see if I get any offers of a swap at the club but if I do need to sell I'll let you know.

So our next king is Boaty McBoatface, excellent.

Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:48 pm I'll see if I get any offers of a swap at the club but if I do need to sell I'll let you know.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:04 pm Well there you go. Late blow-in selected. Thanks for that.

Dear old Georgie is about as multi-culti as it gets - Greek dad, Syrian mum, born in Palestine, buried in Israel; followed his dad into the the Roman army, and ended up in the Praetorian Guard, Canonised in 494, quite a favourite with Eastern Europeans due to the Orthodox Church, and patron saint of Greece, Portugal, Lithuania, Georgia (the ex-USSR one), Aragon, Catalonia, and Moscow. Also patron saint of soldiers, archers, butchers, boy scouts, lepers and plague victims. He even has a Muslim equivalent. (Still, not a patch on Ireland's patron saint - the only one in the world who is (a) a Brit (BritON, rather than BritISH of course) and (b) a kidnap victim.)

The dragon-slaying stuff comes from eastern Europe originally, although it does resemble a similar folk tale from Anglo-Saxon times, which predates any interest in Wales. He wasn't adopted as one of England's patron saints until the 14th Century, and only officially replaced Edward the Confessor in top spot in 1552, when Edward VI's contribution to the Reformation (apart from abolishing the fine English tradition of plain song - see Lucy Worsley) was to remove all but him from the list of English saints.

So the sort of immigrant that not even the BNP could object to really.

Unless he tried to cross the Channel in a motorised rubber dinghy, of course.

Whilst in possession of a mobile phone.
Might get a bit awkward with the lance.

Anyway, best leave that for now.