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

On 10/06/2024 1:03 a.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:

   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.

Actually I had ⁊, copy-pasting from whatever site I found the text on. But on my screen (very old computer, very old version of Windows) it showed as a rectangle with "204A" inside -- standard device for undisplayable characters -- which looked silly, so I substituted the numeral, which looks similar. But I didn't know a name for it - thanks.

  > ("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.