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Article: The return of the Anglo-Saxons - Grimma capitalists they be, and ylfe and orcneas--elves and ogres too.(some in France seem intent on blaming all bad things on Anglo-Saxonism)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2000
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THE Anglo-Saxons are back. For nearly a thousand years, no one gave them much thought. A few poor wretches had to study their poetry, but most people, if they learnt anything about them, discovered only that Bede was venerable, Beowulf boring, Alfred burnt some cakes and the good, short words in English, notably those spelled with asterisks instead of vowels, were coined by the heathen Germans who occupied most of what is today called England between 449 and 1066. Now, however, the Anglo-Saxons are everywhere. They pop up in the context of stock options, shareholder value and neo-American capitalism, or rather (here's a clue) les stock options, la shareholder value et le ...