Mountain Grill

[Stephe Lindas]

 What??? Is this Anglo-saxon?

---- Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM> wrote:
> On 22-Feb-2005 13:31, Jon Jarrett wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Henderson Keith wrote:
> >> If you take a (surface) train into Victoria station from the south (or vice
> >> versa), you'll go right past the old Battersea power station (unless it's
> >> fallen over already), which is famous from the Pink Floyd Animals cover art,
> >> among other things I imagine.  I remember my first time on this rail line,
> >> being half asleep and finally waking up to see this oddly familiar thing
> >> filling the whole window of the train car...I had to blink and rub my eyes
> >> for a minute to make sure I wasn't still dreaming.
> >
> >         I go past that so much, it'd never occurred to me it was an
> > international landmark :-) I knew it from kids' TV years before I saw the
> > Floyd album. However even that gave me a brief "wow!" moment when I first
> > saw it for real. Wreck of a place, brings to mind bits of Anglo-Saxon
> > history about mistaking Roman ruins for buildings of giants... or perhaps
> > that's just to my mind. Anyway!
>
> Wrætlic is þes wealstan; wyrde gebræcon, burgstede burston, brosnað enta
> geweorc. Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras, hrungeat berofen,
>             hrim on lime, scearde scurbeorge scorene, gedorene, aeldo
> undereotone.                   Eorðgrop hafað waldendwyrhtan,
> forweorone, geleorene heard gripe hrusan,                   oþ hund cnea
> werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad, ræghar and readfah,
>   rice  æfter oþrum, ofstondem under stormum; steap geap gedreas ....
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/