Ist QUEEN OF BRITANNIA WAS BOUDICA OF THE ICENI (Life story)

in #story7 years ago

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I learned that she mounted her horse, after the Romans stripped her & whipped her. Then she & her 2 daughters & their hounds disappeared from the Roman records. She went around the entire country & persuaded warring celtic tribes to come together against the Romans in the dark of a future planned moon. Each time she had to pledge her case again to barbarian warriors that they should amass as one.
The last she got to before the fateful night was Carodoc who lived here, where I am now. Dorset was the Durotriges (a roman rendition of their unpronouncable name)
The Durotriges lived up to their name, they were Celts like the Iceni but less given to agriculture more inclined to fight. Duro in latin means - hard.
When Boudica finally met this great famous fighting Chieftain she was already in love with his legend.
Carodoc & Boodica survived that attack on Colchester & London but a few months later the Roman troops from the north & west, who had been summonsed by a horse-riding messenger, finally took on the Celtic alliance & totally defeated it.
Nothing certain is known about what happened to Boudica at that battle near St Albans.
But the legend in Dorset has his barrow & it overlooks the whole territory to the coast.
Carodoc's name lives on here in place names, streets & as far as Cornwall. While Boudica is commemorated with the battered but preserved roman remains of Colchester, a statue facing the Thames in London & her image on our money.
Let's revive her.
She is Britain, not one individual but all of us who are nurtured by this land, regardless of place of birth. Let's live up to her power, strength & determination & finally kick these Romans out to sea as she tried so hard to do.
Sounds like a plan to me.....

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