Sally Caves wrote:
> Ms. Caves would say that there is a paucity of
> other dialects besides West Saxon. We have the
> _sc_ in Anglian, preserved for us in an 8th cent.
> version of Caedmon's Hymn, but I couldn't tell
> you offhand how it was pronounced. The "til"
> suggests Scandinavian influence, and I suspect
..
> WS A
..
> He aerest sceop He aerist scop
> eorthan bearnum aelda barnum
> heofon to hrofe, heben til hrofe
> halig Scyppend haleg Scepen
Ah, this takes me back to my creative writing
class last year - the textbook used this hymn
(the Saxon version) in a discussion of the
different types of rules and metre that poetry
has employed over the centuries.
Adrian.
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