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?

Another queue forms with Pruni and marina tussling it out with others, but Tamum goes straight to the five fanciers or fewer checkout with dough-faced Dylan

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Oh yes, Dylan Moran. And Eddie Izzard.

Seamus Heaney's Beowulf is inspired. So much better than the translation by Michael Alexander that we used - sadly the Heaney was published after I graduated

Oh, yes. Honestly I'd sooner snog Tamsin Greig! But it makes me happy to know that he gives two of my Mn pals great pleasure, so to speak
Now, Jeremy Northam anyone?

Back to the topic, I agree totally about the Heaney. It is loved by acting students who come all over faint when confronted with the unmistakeable black spine of an unadorned Penguin Classic

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DD has done Beowulf in class recently. Year 5. I got her Rosemary Sutcliff's version, not a translation, but a retelling for children which is absolutely fab.

loving this thread and the Bill Bailey links Pruni. Brilliant. Going to a college gaudy for the first time this weekend, bloody hope no one talks about Anglo saxon - the memories are far too traumatic.