micklegard

Updated: May 15, 2025

Or did no captive, escaped by miracle from the butcheries of the amphitheatre, return to tell his countrymen how all the rest had died like German men; and call on them to rise and avenge their brothers' blood? Yes, surely the Teutons knew well, even in the time of Tacitus, of the 'micklegard, the great city and all its glory.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge