ok a bit odd, but can anyone read late medieval english?

[TheArmadillo]

Am reading through document. Can read most of it but cannot understand what 'stoonis' is or 'schulen'

talking about heathen men worshipping 'stoonis' as a god? adn the phrase 'stoonis schulen crie'?

COuld schulen be children?

Anyone know?

[Mercy]

ok, thanks

( but now can't get that bloody song out of my head)

[kiskidee]

wow Pruni! you are my kind of geek.

[Pruni]

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[kiskidee]

oh, god, no!

my professor of English who tortured me with the Faerie Queen also did his thesis on it which i think made him drone on ad vomitum with it.

[DrDaddy]

What a fantastic thread! I was a medievalist once, but a historian (PhD in Medieval History and Philosophy), but always loved listening to OE ME and Anglo Saxon being read....while I toiled away transcribing 13th century manuscripts. Those were the days!

[DrDaddy]

Medieval Latin manuscripts should have said

[Enid]

I specialised in Medieval English in my degree

LOVED the Faerie Queen and Sir Gawain

[Pruni]

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[KathyMCMLXXII]

Classicist here but loved doing Chaucer at A level.

Did any of you Anglo-Saxonists do the Battle of Maldon? I used to live in Maldon.

[Greensleeves]

I can a bit, did some with my degree (am out of practice, brain has turned to organic peach melba yoghurt)

[funnypeculiar]

So good to hear people slagging off Piers Ploughman ... not a conversation I have often anymore

I read Beowulf to ds - but would never ever admit to that in RL

[Swizzler]

I remember the Battle of Maldon - one of the first OE texts we did. Not a great choice for your first tortuous translation though, as I could never figure out who was hitting who

[Swizzler]

Hadn't thought about reading to DS - chance to try out my dodgy ME accent

[Aloha]

You can get a children's Beowulf - ds has it, bought it in a jumble sale. Might read it tonight, actually, after Stuart Little (currently my favourite literary character - so brave! so inventive! so poetic!)

My old English teacher was so old that we speculated that he'd learned it as his mother's knee. The overhead projector fell on him during one lecture. I think that was my favourite bit.

[kiskidee]

loved doing the Battle of Maldon. i felt all emotional reading it. very moving.

the Wanderer is also OE. Anyone else a fan of it?

[Swizzler]

Remember the Wanderer and the Seafarer - is the W about the exiled chap?

[Fillyjonk]

at A level english chaucer

and thus endeth my knowlege thank god

[DrDaddy]

The Seamus Heaney version is excellent in my opinion...

[Marina]

Pruni that sounds like a wonderful degree and I adore Bill Bailey
I'm afraid we call gloves mitaynes and pillowcases pilwe beers in this house in homage to the dirty old Pardoner's Tale. (Dh is the owner of the proper English degree though).

[JackieNo]

I applied to do the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic degree at Cambridge, but wasn't accepted.

[Pruni]

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[JackieNo]

Brilliant - thanks Pruni. Also had to watch him doing the Hokey Cokey in the style of Kraftwerk - also v funny.

[Marina]

I think the man is a national treasure, and curiously sexy. Anyone remember the old sketch of the Civil War Reenactment Society in the pub car park?

[JackieNo]

Marina - yes, 'curiously sexy' - I'm with you on that one.

[Pruni]

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