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[Stephe Lindas]

 Hi Eric, Would the Saxon part of Anglo-saxon, not be German? I'm no historian, but weren't alot of the Romans that occupied Briton of Sarmatian and German descent, rather than Italian? Cheers Stephe

---- Eric Siegerman <erics at TELEPRES.COM> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:44:57PM +0000, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
> > 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 ....
>
> So, can the German-speakers here read this stuff?  I sure can't,
> though it mostly makes sense when I compare it to the
> translation.
>
> What makes me ask is that the Anglo-Saxon King Aelfred the Great
> had a ring, whose inscription said something like "Aelfred mec
> haet gewyrcan", "Aelfred had me made".  Well, "wyrc" must be
> "work", but the rest -- word order, affixes, the "ae"s, the "c"
> in "mec" -- is all far more Deutch than English.  That ring gave
> me quite a shock when I saw it (on my one trip to England when I
> *didn't* get to see HW, and so settled for the British Museum
> instead :-)
>
> --
>
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> |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
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> The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so
> many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to
> represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus.
>         - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"