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Old 04-16-2002, 04:41 PM   #9
Bruce MacCulloch
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I had to read some older stuff that was written during the 1700's/1800's
Feh! Bunch of modern drivel! You want older stuff, read something like Beowulf or Chaucer!
Like this:
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Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!
Now that's proper old literature. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ April 16, 2002: Message edited by: Bruce MacCulloch ]
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