| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 19, 1999, 16:04 |
Tom Wier wrote:> Here're the first few lines from Beowulf (Old English) for comparison:Hardly a fair comparison, that. OE verse is even more impenetrable than OE prose. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge / Politzer