Ænglisc Ƿikipǣdia
Yes, I'm sure that title has got everyone's attention! Even Tolkien might raise an eyebrow over it.
Apparently some wights are attempting to start an Old English Wikipedia. It is all in Old English, so it really is a bit of a specialty page. But obviously there are folks who don't think that learning Old English is all that weird. Ænglisc Ƿikipǣdia Formendacil you have more reason now.:D |
So very, very tempting indeed.
Bookmarked for future trawling! |
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Actually, though I've long been registered there, I don't think I've contributed much, if anything. But I've found their Hu secge ic and Neologism proposals pages a useful starting point in coming up with my own glossary of Old English terms for modern concepts. (I once thought of translating my dissertation into Old English, but I was quite exhausted just getting through the title. But I have written a fragment of alliterative verse on the subject of the search for dark matter. What? Hey . . . where's everyone going?) |
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How long is this fragment of alliterative verse on the search for a ring, um, erm, dark matter? Would you be willing to share it? |
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Nu wé sculon sécan mid searwe and cræfte, déop and díegol, þæt deorc andweorc, þa gastlican grot þa þone gang rǽdaþ héara fýra in feldum heofona, ymbhweorfaþ and stíeraþ þa steorra-hwéol, þa tungol-wolcen, téoþ and lædaþ. Þás floccas úþmǽte fýrenra gimma swa sandgrotu sind þurh sweglu ge-stréawode. Wíd-brádran gíet, swa webbes þrædas, þá sigel-hordas in swælendum hefeldum, þurh rýmetu unrime rodores a-þeniaþ, be ge-wealde ge-wefene þara wácra grota. Timbren wé þoðor þrymmfæstes styles, Literal translation: Now we must seek with art and skill, deep and hidden, the dark matter, the ghostly particles that govern the course of high fires in the fields of the heavens, [that] turn round and steer the star-wheels, [that] pull and lead the star-clouds. Those immense companies of fiery gems like sand-grains are strewn through the skies. Vaster still, like the strands of a web, the sun-hordes extend in burning threads through immeasurable spaces of the firmament, woven by the power of the weak [i.e. interacting via the 'weak force'] particles. Let us build a sphere of mighty steel, It was going to go on to describe the detector for the experiment I work on and then imagine a particle of dark matter interacting within it. Maybe I'll write more - it is rather fun. I especially enjoyed coming up with those kennings for 'galaxy'. Quote:
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I seem to have inadvertantly hijacked this thread, for which I apologize. |
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I had been hoping it would not be long so as not to tax my very rusty (decades old) OE skills. The first verse I could muster a translation of, but your kennings would have defeated me. It reads very well, rhythm and cadence. That's what won me over to OE (I was rather obstreperous as we had to take it)--its aural beauty. I can imagine Tolkien enjoying this, thinking of how to work dark matter into yet another niggling of the Legendarium. Thanks, Aiwendil. Can I send this on to a friend I have who teaches Old English? |
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particle: grot atom: mot (etymologically, this is just the modern English word 'mote') quark: cwarc ('quark' is ultimately just a nonsense word made up by James Joyce, so I simply spelled it as the Anglo-Saxons would have) physics: andweorc-cunnung (literally 'substance-science') physicist: andweorc-wita (literally 'substance-scholar') matter: andweorc energy: weorc charmed quark: galdorcwarc (literally 'sorcery-quark') proton: formagrot ('first-particle', following the etymology of 'proton' in Greek) neutron: unbehlæstgrot ('uncharged-particle') electron: spearcagrot ('spark-particle') baryon: þricwarc ('three-quark', as a baryon is composed of three quarks) 'Baryonic matter' would then be 'þricwarclic andweorc'. |
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