Re: ASCIIifying
| From: | David Starner <dvdeug@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 14, 2003, 5:04 |
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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 06:51:29PM -0700, Joe Fatula wrote:
> > Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!
>
> Out of curiousity, what does this say? It looks like "I sat myself on a ??,
> that came these and bit me!", or something like that.
It's Anglo-Saxon; the story goes that a nun ate a leaf of lettuce
without blessing it first, and when she becomes posessed and the priest
comes to expell the spirt, he protests "I was sitting on a leaf of
lettuce, and she came up and ate me!". Unfortunately, I can't find the
place where I copied it from, so I'm not sure how exact that translation
is.
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David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro
Ic sæt me on anum leahtrice, ða com heo and bát me!