Re: The Chant on the Dog's Grave

Jeff Jones wrote:


> I still have one question: since a bannock is a cake and "burn" is "burn",
> where was King Arthur during all of this?
No, no, it was King *Alfred*, a quite different fellow, who burned the
cakes.

(Seriously, "burn" in this context is almost certainly "stream".)

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