[Loch-Ruadh] forgotten English

[John Stegall]

not bad till u get up close and personal  and have to send someone home to their  family  
 i have  personal exp  from vietnam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Terry Sikes 
To: Madelina de Lindesay;Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc.
Sent: 02/23/2005 6:49:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] forgotten English




Madelina de Lindesay <lymadelina at earthlink.net> wrote: 
streek - to strech or expand; to lay out a corpse; [from] Saxon "streccan". "Streeking-board", a board on which the limbs of the deceased are stretched out and composed.
composed?  I thought they decomposed.
Terence
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