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Jerry Pournelle

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Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
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Reply to reader email in Chaos Manor Mail 141, February 19-25, 2001

 
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