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Re: An early conlang

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Sunday, April 11, 2004, 22:35
This story is also recounted in Katherine Briggs' A Dictionary of Fairies,
where the writer states that it is perfectly good Greek. Kind of in synch
with the thought of the time that all good faery folk should speak a
classical language.
Mike
> > "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. > > Doug