Which unified countries, are symbolically represented in the nursery rhyme ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’?
Correct answer: England and Scotland
Lorraine
most nursery rhymes have sinister meanings as warnings
Iain
The Unicorn is the national animal of Scotland
I am not a number.
The rhyme shows how views are skewed with England beating Scotland. But the reality is that England ran out of royal lineage so invited Scotland's monarch to take theirs as a merger. It's hardly the beating depicted in the rhyme.
I am not a number.
Bengarrion, It's both 1603 and 1707. The "Union of the Crowns" was 1603 when England's Queen Elizabeth I died and the crown was given to Scotland's King James VI. The "Union of the Parliament" (properly ""The Acts of Union") was 1707.
Louie
Centuries ago they discovered narwhal tusks. They thought they could only come from a horse like land creature and not from the sea. Hence the Unicorn was born
lola
what a disgusting rhyme!