People were saying that twenty years ago, and twenty before that. Presumably the Saxons were expressing the same sentiments when the Normans turned up (but then they were French, so slack where slack is due).
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
