Re: Danes attack Lindisfarne (8-6-793)

 Ar an naoiú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðhymbra land, 7 þæt folc earmlic
 > bregdon,
 > þæt wæron ormete þodenas 7 ligrescas, 7 fyrenne dracan wæron gesewene on þam
 > lifte fleogende.
 > Þam tacnum sona fyligde mycel hunger,
 > 7 litel æfter þam, þæs ilcan geares on .vi. Idus Ianuarii,
 > earmlice hæþenra manna hergunc adilegode Godes cyrican in Lindisfarnaee þurh
 > hreaflac 7 mansliht.

I’m sure you know this, but you want ⁊ (U+204A, Tironian Sign Et) for those 7s.

 > ("In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of the
 > Northumbrians, and the wretched people shook;
 > there were excessive whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying
 > in the sky.
 > These signs were followed by great famine,
 > and a little after those, that same year on 6th ides of January,
 > the ravaging of wretched heathen men destroyed God's church at Lindisfarne [by
 > plunder and slaughter].")
 >
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne
 >
 > Crystal reminds us that these Danish terrorists later settled down in large
 > areas of northern and eastern England (the Danelaw), and that their language
 > eventually had a profound influence on Anglo-Saxon and thus on modern
 > English, contributing many basic lexical items and even some grammatical
 > morphology.

Netflix has several series currently set in that time period, which is unusual,
it’s not something that I remember being dramatised much before. Maybe there’s
a strong Scandinavian interest in that sort of TV that they’ve picked up on and
thought they could make some money from?

 > A recent book even claimed that English should be reclassified as North
 > Germanic:
 >
 > https://www.academia.edu/10360982/English_The_Language_of_the_Vikings
 >
 > though very few specialists agreed.

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