NK - Not Chaucer

[Nathan W. Jones]

maidenhair....it's fake Old Anglo-Saxon...try to read it phonetically.
(first line is "Meanwhile, back at mead hall....")

Gio

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Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: NK - Not Chaucer


> I think this piece of pseudo-Old English is
> accessible to readers of modern English.
>
> Enjoy,
> Christoph
>
> Meanehwael, baccat meaddehaele,
> monstaer lurccen;
> Fulle few too many drincce, hie
> luccen for fyht.
> [D]en Hreorfneorht[d]hwr, son of
> Hrwaerow[p]heororthwl,
> AEsccen aewful jeork to steop
> outsyd.
> [P]hud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom!
> [D]e bigge gye
> Eallum his bon brak, byt his nose
> offe;
> Wicced Godsylla waeld on his asse.
> Monstaer moppe fleor wy[p] eallum
> men in haelle.
> Beowulf in bacceroome fonecall
> bemaccen waes;
> Hearen sond of ruccus saed, "Hwaet
> [d]e helle?"
> Graben sheold strang ond
> swich-blaed scharp
> Sond feorth to fyht [d]e grimlic foe.
> "Me," Godsylla saed, "mac [d]e
> minsemete."
> Heoro cwyc geten heold wi[p]
> faemed half-nelson
> Ond flyng him lic frisbe bac to fen.
> Beowulf belly up to meaddehaele bar,
> Saed, "Ne foe beaten mie faersom
> cung-fu."
> Eorderen cocca-colha yce-coeld,
> [d]e reol [p]yng.
> -- Not Chaucer, for certain
>
>