Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> Calling a bunch of barbarian Celts
> "Elves", while satisfactory on a very base level,
> would be out of keeping.
Pre-Celts, Padraic.  They were in Britain when your ancestors
and mine were a bunch of swan-eating barbarians in what is now Germany.

"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman
were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple
of Solomon."
        --Benjamin Disraeli, in response to an Antisemitic taunt
          supposedly by Daniel O'Connell

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