This is a strange saying isn’t it? How can the course of history be changed? It’s not history until it happens – or is it?
Is the story always meant to be this way? Is it meant at all or does it just happen.
To quote my terrible student translation of The Wanderer (my favourite Old English poem), “Fate is unalterable”. But is Fate only Fate once it’s History?
I learned a new bit of history from current audiobook ‘And did those feet’, namely the story of Gwenllian, the last Welsh Princess. She was only a year old when her father was killed and she was removed by Edward I to Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, where she became a nun and lived out the remainder of her life. A sad, sad story I’d never heard before, and one that’s worth telling further.
