Re: An early conlang

Doug Dee wrote:

> I was just reading _Medieval Children_ by Nicholas Orme, which tells me
> the
> following (p. 154):
>
> "The twelve-year-old Welsh schoolboy Eliodor, who claimed to have visited
> the
> underworld in the early twelfth century, alleged that he learnt its speech
> and used to repeat it to his listeners.  Years later, Gerald of Wales
> recorded
> two of his phrases, 'Ydor ydorum' ('Bring water') and 'Halgein ydorum'
> ('Bring
> salt')."
>
> I presume that would be among the earliest conlangs of which we have some
> record.
Hmmm, it's Greek to me (don't know about that verb ydorum, however)....