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Tom Whitmore sent me the URL of this site, where Kenneth Wald has posted lost bits of medieval English lit:...

Relit -- comment #1 from David Moles

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:00:48 -0500

At ox-cart speeds those signs must have been awfully close together.

Posted October 30, 2002 4:00 PM by David Moles

Relit -- comment #2 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:07:57 -0500

I expect they went missing so long because people kept mistaking them for a shield wall.

Posted October 30, 2002 5:07 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Relit -- comment #3 from Erik V. Olson

Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:46:01 -0500

The wonders of evolving languages. Like, forex, this...

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

Posted October 30, 2002 10:46 PM by Erik V. Olson

Relit -- comment #4 from Robert L

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:59:10 -0500

Wait a minute...are you telling me Paul Anka ripped off Chaucer?

Posted October 31, 2002 12:59 AM by Robert L

Relit -- comment #5 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:02:12 -0500

That's what the police reports say -- bashed in his passenger-side window and made off with his briefcase and car stereo.

Posted October 31, 2002 7:02 AM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Relit -- comment #6 from Dorothy Rothschild

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:51:44 -0500

Chaucer must have been joyriding in John Donne's car, then....

Posted October 31, 2002 7:51 AM by Dorothy Rothschild

Relit -- comment #7 from DorothyRothschild

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:53:43 -0500

Sorry, think I made a connection where one was not - just spent two hours forcing undergraduates to discuss Wollstonecraft's theories of education, after 5.5 hours of sleep; my brain's fried. Ignore previous comment!

Posted October 31, 2002 7:53 AM by DorothyRothschild

Relit -- comment #8 from John Farrell

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:16:46 -0500

Teresa,

Don't throw things at me, or I'll quote you his bits of Anglo-Saxon verse that end with the words, Byrme Scafe.

You can quote Anglo Saxon any time you want. One of my favorite jaw-crackers is from the Battle of Maldon...

"Gefeancie fee, f0eoda waldend,
ealra fee6ra wynna fee ic on worulde gebad.
Nu ic ah, milde metod, me6ste feearfe
fee6t feu minum gaste godes geunne,
fee6t min sawul to f0e sif0ian mote
on fein geweald, feeoden engla,
mid frifee ferian..."

Posted October 31, 2002 9:16 AM by John Farrell

Relit -- comment #9 from Mary Kay

Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:54:52 -0500

John: I can't do Anglo Saxon, but I can do a bit of Chaucer in Middle English if you were to give me a really good martini...

MKK

Posted November 4, 2002 4:54 PM by Mary Kay

Relit -- comment #10 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:55:42 -0500

Danger, Will Robinson. Reciting large swatches of Middle English is one of the more reliable signs that I've had one too many, and I'm not the only person in our community who does that. Do it in Anglo-Saxon, and Graydon and Dr. Doyle are like to appear at your elbow. And if you want the standup version of Intro to English Metrical Romances (including all the bad ones), I can tell you who to buy drinks for. The SF world is full of defrocked medievalists.

Posted November 10, 2002 11:55 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden