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[Stephe Lindas]

 Hi, That would sound pretty good with Calvert doing it. Interesting stuff. Cheers Stephe

---- Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
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