Bless the Wikipedia and all its funny little ways.
I was chasing an allegation that the term ‘hamlet’ refers to a village which is supported by orchards (Wikipedia disagrees, stating that it is, in Britain, purely an ecclesiastical distinction). Of course, on my way I passed throughHamlet disambiguation, which led to the Hamlet legend, which led to Saxo Grammaticus and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, which led to…
I forget where it led next, or indeed where I thought I was going in the first place. I have to admit, though, that the encyclopedia is the one type of labyrinth in which one enjoys getting lost more than finding the way.
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