SC -veal longings
Diana L Skaggs
upsxdls_osu at ionet.net
Wed Feb 7 04:39:42 PST 2001
At 2:40 AM -0600 2/7/01, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>Nanna said:
>> I'm not going to say Icelandic hasn't changed for the last 800 years. Of
>> course it has, although less than most other languages. But we tend to be
>> rather protective of it. We have no old palaces, cathedrals or monuments, in
>> fact no buildings more than 250 years old - few old works of art, no
>> national treasures to speak of. Except our litterature. That, and our
>> language, is what sets us apart. Which is why I, while not a language purist
>> myself, can readily understand people who are.
>
>Huh? There are large portions of the United States that weren't even
>colonized 250 years ago and the country itself isn't that old, but
>Iceland was settled in 900 something?
Starting about 870
>Why is it rare to have no buildings
>or works of art that old?
They didn't build any palaces or the like. What they did build was
largely wood.
But they could have had quite a collection of palaces and cathedrals,
and their literature would still be what sets them apart.
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