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"The Anglo-Saxon charms...are of outstanding importance because they provide more than vague recommendations of exceptional and brief texts. They cannot be said to reveal everything, for there are numerous points where they lamentably are unsuccessful us, nonetheless they are numerous enough and, taken as a body, complete enough to provide greater than a tantalizing hint of an bizarre world. The veil of mystification enveloping magic appears to be thin and translucent here." [G. Storms, Anglo-Saxon Magic (1948)] London is one of the great cities of Europe, a middle of commerce, fine art, and science for more almost 2,000 years. Site visitors today are cared for to world-class museums, pulsing nightlife, and fine eating. But one does not have to search considerably beyond this successful and modern facade to glance an older and much more different London; in reality everywhere one appears, ancient traditions and old patterns emerge. Pagan characters peer down from pub surfaces, spirits allegedly haunt major tourist sites, and bizarre traditions continue in places of supposedly Christian worship. London was founded by the Romans soon after an invasion led during the reign of Emperor Claudius in 43 CE. The website chosen was the north lender of the River Thames, near to a good ford. The Romans called the administrative centre of their new province of Britannia Londinium, produced from Celtic word lond, meaning "wild", following the untouched states of the land. However, archaeology and folklore make clear that the land wasn't completely uninhabited. Londinium was already a sacred site for the Celts, and many swords and pieces of armor have been dredged up from the Thames, thrown there as offerings by Druids.
