Re: OT: A language only recently tamed
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 30, 2007, 4:41 |
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On Sep 29, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Jim Henry wrote:
> "For this occasion, the Slavonic liturgy was sung in a language
> only recently tamed; it had been bound and brought from the Balkan
> expanses to the capital of the world like a small animal in a cage of
> Glagolitic letters."
>
> From "Methodius of Thesssalonica", _The Dictionary of the Khazars_
> by Milorad Pavić
Thanks for mentioning that book -- it sounds fascinating!