Uchronic visions were part of Icelandic collective representations of the world, and as such they deeply influenced the response of the society to its own history.

whose white vestments figure innocence

Just beyond Widmerpool the railway crosses the Roman Fosse Way on the skew. In The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress Frederick S. Williams wrote in 1877 that in reverence to the past, the Midland acquiesced in the matter of a skew bridge, so that the lengthy straight course of the Fosse Way should not be disturbed.

A semi had side-swiped my patrol car, breaking windows and destroying the driver's door.