2006-09-27 18:20:10 · 12 answers · asked by MIMSTRIK 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
FAIRYDUST!
GET A LIFE! and go get some anti-depressants instead of putting everybody down!
2006-09-27 18:27:59 · update #1
The London Bridge is very old and at one time was in need of massive repairs. The incidents of parts of the bridge falling apart before repairs could be made are where the song came from.
2006-09-27 18:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by roamin70 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The rhyme may have had considerably more ancient antecedents. In 1013, London Bridge was burned down by King Ethelred and his Norwegian ally Olaf Haraldsson in a bid to divide the invading forces of the Danish king Svein Haraldsson. The event was recorded in the Saga of Olaf Haraldson, part of the Heimskringla composed around 1225 by Snorri Sturluson. Snorri quotes extracts of a lay by a Norse poet, Ottar Svarte, including the following passage which is strikingly similar to parts of the rhyme:
London Bridge is broken down. --
Gold is won, and bright renown.
Shields resounding,
War-horns sounding,
Hild is shouting in the din!
Arrows singing,
Mail-coats ringing --
Odin makes our Olaf win!
2006-09-27 18:21:56 · answer #2 · answered by Yahoo Medic 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because the London Bridge was in London and then was taken down and rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, AZ.
2006-09-27 18:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by MoMoney23 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Gavin is correct and Luther, you are thinking of the old rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" that's the rhyme about the plague
2006-09-27 18:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This childhood rhyme actually refer's to politics rather than the actual "London Bridge". Alot of early American nursery rhymes are steeped in old political propaganda. If you know your history, and the approximate birth date of the rhyme you should be able to see the inferences.
2006-09-27 18:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by tired 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is the mystery of us-911 decoded.
2006-09-27 21:09:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hope the song wont reach the wrong ears it might give some terrorists poeple "bad" ideas..... if u know what i mean
2006-09-27 18:31:23 · answer #7 · answered by mexika_thug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HAHAHAHAH you know that the americasn bought london bridge thinking they were getiing tower bridge?
what a load of.............
2006-09-28 02:00:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know a girl named mary who isn't contrary and doesn't have a lamb. i see stars in the sky every night that don' look like diamonds. and i rock my baby to sleep every night but she never falls from the tree top.
2006-09-27 18:23:02 · answer #9 · answered by Jen k 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not sure ,but I think it had something to do with the Bubonic Plague.
2006-09-27 18:24:04 · answer #10 · answered by luther 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋