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[rymenhild]

(via Slate)

A Druid named Arthur Pendragon is running for British parliament.

I love the world.

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[tovaks.livejournal.com]

And his middle name is Uther, too. WOW.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

As muchabstracted and I are saying below, I'm fairly sure the man did not begin life with that name.

It was very hard to write that sentence, because I couldn't call Arthur Uther Pendragon by his first name, and it just seemed really wrong to call him Pendragon.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

*snickers* I'm not sure if I should characterize this as "problems that don't occur to people when they change their names" or "perks that sometimes accompany changing one's name.

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

A 'full-time Druid,' according to the article. Hee. That's awesome. Why do the British get to have their politics be so much more fun than ours?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

It really isn't fair. Dennis Kucinich is just not this cool.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

...was he born with that name?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Somehow I'm a bit skeptical about that one.

I actually think it's part of modern Druid religion to change one's name. I don't remember where I heard that; I could be wrong.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

In that case, I am much less frightened.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You're not frightened by the fact that some environmentalist and probably pacifist Druid decided to name himself after a famous sixth-century war leader?

[ashen_key]

*grins* who murdered at least two of his sons.

Maybe he just has the fairy-tale image of the blond, dim, hopeful Arthur that we've all been inflicted with.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

*points above*

What tahira_saki said.

It doesn't seem at all remarkable that an environmentalist, pacifist Druid would name himself after Arthur. Although I would never dream of saying that it isn't hilariously funny.

[silveraspen]

Ahahaha.

Okay, that has just made my morning. :)

[carasfriendmatt.livejournal.com]

What I find especially funny is that, reading these comments straight through, it looks like a full-time British druid took the ceremonial name "Dennis Kucinich."

And then killed two of his sons.