Re: The Chant on the Dog's Grave
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 28, 2001, 2:48 |
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>Jeff Jones wrote:
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>> I still have one question: since a bannock is a cake and "burn" is "burn",
>> where was King Arthur during all of this?
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>No, no, it was King *Alfred*, a quite different fellow, who burned the
>cakes.
Yes, that's what he _said_: "Arthur". And anyway, if King Alfred was
a Good King, how could he also be an Incendiary King? Well, he _was_
secretly a Weak King as well, so who knows?
>(Seriously, "burn" in this context is almost certainly "stream".)
Yes, well, that's the Scots for you - always comming up with
Forn words for everything when there are perfectly reasonable
words already there!
Padraic.