Norwich Cathedral: 15 Oct 2021
Look at this. What do you see? Beautiful, isn’t it. The praise of God made permanent in stone.
But look again and see the oppression of the Saxon race, Norman stone that crowded us out of our homes.
Three parishes flattened so they could build this to assuage their guilt. Our houses, our churches… and we could not pray in there instead. This was for their monks, not for the defeated Saxon people.
Beautiful, yes. A beautiful construction that flattened and destroyed us. But we lower our eyes and we obey and we live to fight another day.
crispina kemp 
History has such dark patches.
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It’s a history I know well, I have studied it
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Interesting bit of history and truth. But our views are usually a bit biased. She isn’t considering that the Saxons came from Jutland (Denmark) to crowd out the original occupants. 🙂
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Um, yes no. The Saxons were the first to establish anything at this place. And mostly they moved in where Romans moved out. Celts (Iceni tribe) had their settlement a few miles south of here.
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You have hit upon a personal passion for me, so I have described my feelings on visiting these magical edifices at http://bobfairfield.org/Crimson’s CreativeChallenge154/10/20/2021
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https://bobfairfield.org/2021/10/20/crimsons-creative-challenge-154/
😉
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As usual I stand corrected, this should read https://bobfairfield.org/2021/10/20/crimsons-creative-challenge-154/
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It’s a personal passion of mine too. And I don’t dispute the effort, the teamwork, the devotion. I’m just telling it from the Saxon’s view.
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‘Tis a sad truth written exquisitely right here.
And look at you posting the same day as you issue your challenge! What has overcome you?
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I too thought this a tad un-Crispina like
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Threw me for a loop, tell you what!
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Sorry. I’ll try not to let it happen again
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Tee hee! I think, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not so bad…
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Thank you. And you’ll note I’ve done Sammi’s prompt and posted it today. Wooza!
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Oh, I’ve not gone that far yet 😉
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🙂
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Getting ahead of myself. I expected to be out today but weather has held me in
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I believe this is the first time the weather has been portrayed as a corset
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Thank you, Bobby, that has me chuckling
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Indeed, such a belly laugh I’ve almost split my corset
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Error. Total error. I schedule my posts and I scheduled the wrong day!
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Hahahaha! I KNEW it was way outta da norm! 😉
Still good 😉
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Thank you, my friend
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Always, my friend 😉
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🙂
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Thanks. Embarrassment. I really don’t know where my focus was that day. (Don’t say, I know, it was with the Writer)
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Bah. There are worse things…
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Mmm, I could have forgotten to post it!
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True. And still… in the grand scheme of things, still not the end of the world.
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Religion often is the excuse for misdeeds 😕
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Yes. Church history makes for very interesting reading
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Interesting history, Crispina. I am always amazed at how many injustices we’ve done in the name of religion in our world’s history.
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They were done in the name of religion because they had to be done in the name of something. Something usually had to be said to justify the deed. If religion wasn’t the culprit it would have been ethnicity or language or they’re just savages.
If nothing else, just plain greed and power, but few conquerors have ever admitted, “We’re greedy and want all your treasures. “
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This is true. William of Normandy wanted England’s riches. He & his followers took whatever they could find. The worst offender was William’s half-brother, Odo Bishop of Bayeux, who emptied Canterbury cathedral of everything of worth
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And when we look at the Church’s footprint on the Americas, it’s horrendous.
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The devout believing in their own power among the chaos created.
I do enjoy reading about religious history. Nicely written, Crispina.
Isadora 😎
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Thank you, Isadora
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So true and so sad. I almost missed it, you posted so early. 😉
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oops. I know. Head not in its usual place this week. Apologies… and for being so late in getting back to you
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What? You’re not online 24/7 and jump on every comment, post and tweet? Me neither. 😉
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Twitter can be addictive. And while its Writing Community are very supportive, a great group of people, it can be very destructive of good writing practices. However, it is the main platform for promoting my books, and it works
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Yes, I understand that. It’s marginally better than Facebook, and you need to go somewhere where potential readers are.
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If it wasn’t for that I’m not sure I’d be quite such a regular contributor. But I do have some good supportive friends there as well. And I’ve announced this morning that I’m taking time off Twitter to focus on me.
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Good for you, time like that is necessary and essential for creativity, I think.
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Yes, it is. I dillied & dallied & didn’t know whether to, then this morning decided and announced it
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Just a note: William was Duke of Normandy, not Prince of Orange
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