How many gold rings, altogether, did ‘My True Love give to me’ over the Twelve Days of Christmas?
Give Me Back My Legions! 20,000 heavily armed Roman infantry, and auxiliaries, are brutally ambushed by Germanic forces. Though the legions are not well trained, it is Arminius' tactics that prove to be decisive. For three days the Germanic Tribes surround the legions, killing Roman soldiers along with civilians, family members of the soldiers; some are even taken captive— most of whom are sacrificed on an altar to the Germanic Gods. Forty years later the Romans attack Germania again. As with many of Turtledove's novels, there are several viewpoint characters, including Arminius, Varus, and others. Give Me Back My Legions! Give Me Back My Legions!
The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) associated with it is derived from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin, who first introduced the familiar prolongation of the verse "five gold rings" (now often "five golden rings"). "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas. There are many variations in the lyrics. The lyrics given here are from Frederic Austin's 1909 publication that first established the current