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Re: Nur-ellen in the world of Brithenig (was Re: Nur-ellenuniverses)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 2:12
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

>What is Wessic? I guess some kind of Wessex dialect which for some >reason went its own way?
It's Wessic. :P A kind of English tongue mixed with a Celtic substrate. We haven't heard much from the proprietor recently. :(
>> >BTW: Does Kemr include what *here* is Warwickshire and Staffordshire? >> >> Where be they? The map is at <polaris.umuc.edu/~pbrown/map.jpg> >> or was last I checked. > >Must have been quite a time ago. The map just isn't there. >You should know better what is on your own pages and what not!
Arright, arright. I'll try and find and then repost it.
>BTW: To say the dictionary on your site was "not entirely functional" >is quite an euphemism, it does not work at all!
There's nothing there _to_ work! One more thing I've been putting off...
> >> > [Elvish cities in Kemr; Elvish Heritage Revival] >> >> Ah, for that they'd be travelling down my way! > >Pardon? "Travelling down my way"? What do you mean?
If they want to visit Stonehenge, etc., the Elves will have to take a train on down into the lovely Province on Dunein. Which is more or less my manor. Home of Kerno speakers and loud pipe music.
>> Mm. Where was the ice thick, I wonder? ;) > >I mean that we don't know whether there was ever anything from which >Nur-ellen could plausibly have evolved. A "purist" historian might >intervene that >we are adding an element based on pure speculation. But, heck, we are >doing it just for fun, and it is all speculation, anyway! And no-one >knows that those people were *not* there!
Sure! Padraic.
>Joerg.