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III. ANGLE-LAND

115, note 2 "How Balin met with his brother Balan . . ." cf. In Par by misadventure

Here, at the end of the section concerning the settlement of England by Angles and Saxons, modern British and Germans fighting during the World Wars are compared to the brothers in Malory who mistakenly slay each other. The modern wars are fratricidal because of the consanguinity of the English and Anglo-Welsh with the Germans owing to the medieval settlement of Angle-land. Jones's gloss refers to the dedication of In Parenthesis (1937), "TO THE ENEMY / FRONT FIGHTERS WHO SHARED OUR / PAINS AGAINST WHOM WE FOUND / OURSELVES BY MISAD-VENTURE."