Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition Comments

my thanks go to you for the poem and the notes. if i had read notes first i would not have had to look up reive and i would not have thought black meal referred to the gunpowder......food for the guns. [actually the reference to black meal still is unclear to me. did gunpowder and shot not suffice to repel the reivers, so the monks gave the reivers flour (wheat flour? ; why black?) ? ? ] i especially enjoyed: The rainbow arch hangs in space at Lindisfarne, a cannonball's leap frozen in stone. ...........................and the weather/sea/munitions comparisons. glad you are a law-abiding descendent. bri