From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Jan 06 1997 - 19:17:18 EST
I know this is straying off the topic, but for those who are really
interested in this,
there is a web site with good links to literature and historical information
on Anglo-Saxon England:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~layher1/medscan.html
Here's a sentence of multi-syllabic Anglo-Saxon from the Parker Chronicle:
Þa tungel witgan of eastd¾le cuomon to ßon ß¾t hie Crist weorßedon,
& ßa cild on Bethlem ofsl¾gene w¾run for Cristes ehtnesse from Herode.
Here are the first four lines of Beowulf, in multi-syallabic Saxon:
Hw¾t! We Gardena in geardagum,
ßeodcyninga, ßrym gefrunon,
hu Ýa ¾ßelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaßena ßreatum,
I don't care to debate the nature of older forms of English further, but the
web site I mentioned above is a great resource to anyone curious about these
matters.
Now back to Greek...
Jonathan
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