Word: saxonism
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...Saxon. The Teutonic barbarians who crumpled the remains of the decaying Roman Empire were often reported to have been big men. Last week a group of British amateur diggers found the bones of a fifth-century Saxon who was big indeed, if not monstrous...
Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...
...sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and striped gown, Micah leaves no doubt as to his Anglo-Saxon manliness. Before a moviegoer can say popcorn, he has unhorsed a villainous overseer and released from bondage a mistreated slave; later on, he triumphs in a religious disputation with some rascally heathens by a solid right...
...these laws violate the traditional Angle-Saxon theory of law, he argued, for they attempt to prevent anti-social behavior before it occurs, rather than punishing it. By trying to suppress ideas which could lead to future crime the government is moving towards the suppressing of all opinions critical of the existing system, he said...
...Randora" is what we use," explained Corbeil. "That means 'free play, catch-as-catch-can. It's nothing but Angle-Saxon wrestling with a ritual...