Mountain Grill

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On 22-Feb-2005 16:55, Stephe Lindas wrote:
>  What??? Is this Anglo-saxon?

Indeed -- or "Old English" they like to call it "in the biz".  It's the
beginning of the poem now commonly known as "The Ruin", understood to be
describing the Roman ruins of Bath.  It's what Jon was referring to when
he said that the Battersea power station:

 > brings to mind bits of Anglo-Saxon
 > history about mistaking Roman ruins for buildings of giants...

A handy translation is to be found at
<http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczsjm/wap/angsp.html#trans>, and
would sound great if it had been read by Calvert with Space Ritual
noises behind it :)  The translation there begins "The city buildings
fell apart, the works of giants crumble. Tumbled are the towers,
ruined the roofs, and broken the barred gate; frost in the plaster, all
the ceilings gape, torn and collapsed and eaten up by age ...."

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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