That Velma is a Clever Girl

That Velma is a Clever Girl

No, Not That Velma...

...or That Velma, either...

...or That One (Though She is.)

Upon their arrival in London, Steve Trevor and Princess Diana are seen to cross a street with a direct line of sight down it to St. Paul's Cathedral. 

Although no such street exists, it's a green-screen creation, the present post-Great Fire of London St. Paul's designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is built over the site of the ruins of the old, Medieval St.Pauls. This mediaeval St. Paul's was built over an even earlier (or probably several), Anglo-Saxon "Dark Age" or Romano-British Churches of which nothing is now known, other than the fact that prior to re-consecration as a Christian Church, the site (at the highest point in the City) was originally a pagan temple dedicated to the Goddess Diana, Mistress of the Hunt, Protector of Widows, Orphans and Wronged-Women, at the time of the first founding of the settlement that became London.

A full account of the foundational myth of London (and Britain) by Brutus of Troy and refugees from the Fall of Troy, including a detailed account of the dedication of the City, and the consecration of the hilltop to the worship of Diana, along with a personal appearance by The Goddess at that time is to be found in the text of the Brut Tyssilo.

And that's all I have to say about that. - watch the movie.

How come every time you come around

My London London Bridge wanna go down like

London London London, wanna go down like

London London London, we goin' down like

WOTAN

"DOC-TOR, WHO-IS-REC-QUIRED, BRING-HIM-HERE!"

Scholars of myth may note that in the title sequence, McCoy winks the eye that Merlin is said to have sacrificed for wisdom.

Dr. Sidney Schaefer: 

You know, one thing I learned from my patients... they all hate the phone company. It's interesting; even the stock holders of the phone company hate the phone company!

V.I. Kydor Kropotkin: 

I know. Bedouins hate the phone company. Matter of fact, I've never been in a country where everybody didn't hate the phone company.

V.I. Kydor Kropotkin: 

Are you trying to tell me every phone in the country is tapped?

Don Masters, CEA Agent: 

That's what's in my head.

V.I. Kydor Kropotkin: 

Don, this is America, not Russia!

Old English:

+ wyrm com snican, toslat he nan,

ða genam woden VIIII wuldortanas,

sloh ða þa næddran þæt heo on VIIII tofleah

Þær gaændade æppel and attor

þæt heo næfre ne wolde on hus bugan.

Griffiths translation:

A serpent came crawling (but) it destroyed no one

when Woden took nine twigs of glory,

(and) then struck the adder so that it flew into nine (pieces).

There archived apple and poison

that it never would re-enter the house.

Old Norse:

Ǫnd þau né átto, óð þau né hǫfðo,

lá né læti né lito góða.

Ǫnd gaf Óðinn, óð gaf Hœnir,

lá gaf Lóðurr ok lito góða.

Benjamin Thorpe translation:

Spirit they possessed not, sense they had not,

blood nor motive powers, nor goodly colour.

Spirit gave Odin, sense gave Hœnir,

blood gave Lodur, and goodly colour.

Henry Adams Bellows translation:

Soul they had not, sense they had not,

Heat nor motion, nor goodly hue;

Soul gave Othin, sense gave Hönir,

Heat gave Lothur and goodly hue.

Fenric - Djinn

Soul he had not, sense he had not,

Heat nor motion, nor goodly hue;