I've been obsessing over this bilingual (Latin/ very Late Old English) female-audience copy of the Benedictine Rule (c. 1220s South-Western England): https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Claudius_D_III It's been recently digitised by the British Library, and I'm still waiting...
Luca Panieri, Fonologia delle lingue germaniche antiche , Pisa University Press, 2021. This book traces the development of the main Germanic languages of the early/high Middle Ages (Gothic, Old Norse, Old English, Old High German), beginning with Porto-Indo-European and going through the main sound ...
I came up with this: A possible first sentence of an Úrageardian creation myth. The first half of the Old English version popped into my head first, don't blame me. Late West Saxon Ǽr gíet wearð þá eall þe wæs and gíet weorðan sceall, þá wæs mycel emetignysse on þæs middangeardes stede. Modern Engli...
I have countless short stories set in Úrageard on my Amiga 500 (either written on ancient hardware or transferred from my ailing MacBook). It's only a matter of time... Úrageard is (as for now) a Standard Medieval Fantasy Europe , technologically comparable to 1450s Europe with magic (the system is ...
To be fair, the creator of English hasn't bothered creating new words for almost anything in the last... what, 1,200 years? They just cycle through which languages to borrow from. I mean, they call English a language, but 80% of its vocabulary is loanwords! That includes 30% of the vocabulary stole...
If I counted correctly, I'm 38th with 1588 posts.
I've been concentrating on other things, but I'm having the occasional peek over here.
Though I'm a daily visitor to the unofficial CBB Discord server.
Last week, but eh: Beforeigners . Synopsis (with as little spoilage as possible): People from the neolithic, the Viking age and the 19th century start appearing in Oslo. They have to live and work together, and there's a murder case to solve… Unfortunately, I had to sit through six episodes of Germa...