The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry(sacred-texts.com)
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The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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Bless google translate's heart I can read about half of the words on any poem presented here.
Google Translate's rendering of "Dream of the Rood" (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a02_05.htm), lines 10-12:
feathers need to be looked after. Neither is it true that the offcodes are algae,
but they are kept half-
gassed, but they are too muddy, and they are scarce.I actually find this harder to read with W/w substituting for Ƿ/ƿ (wynn). Odd that context will do that. At least thorn and eth didn't become th.
It's like someone took Icelandic and English and threw them into a blender. I dig it.
Other way around. This is a major ingredient what went into the blender that produced modern english and icelandic both.
Makes sense. I can stumble through a Scandinavian text way easier than I can anything German.
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