Re: war and death are in my hand

andrew wrote:

> In Brithenig:
>
> Ech!  Eo    di   gomyndad  Iffern,
> See   I.nom from community Hell
>
> E   lla   Wer e'll      Morth i  mew bruis.
> And the.f war and_the.m death in my  grip
[snip]

Brithenig has a null copula?  That would be most unusual for a Western
Indo-European language (much less a Romance language), wouldn't it?  Or is
the deletion of the copula here some sort of rhetorical device?

Matt.

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