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 Why, in God's name, do we so often talk of the great deeds of our race as if they had all occurred in the past? In one of the old sagas we read of how Brynhild, the warrior maid, whom Sigurd found, gave him "the deepest counsel that ever yet was given to living man, and wrought on him to the performance of great deeds." What hinders us from opening our eyes and seeing that we have tens of thousands of Brynhilds in our midst at this moment? Cockney girls, perhaps, but the old heroic blood is in our women still—the blood that made our Britain great and will make her greater yet.