Re: The Knights Templar

"Shaun" <Shaun_Musings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Eh, I knew I should have written 'English' instead of British. My
> actual major is indeed English, with a concentration on British
> history, and the languages employed during its history, in particular,
> the Old English of Beowulf, and the Middle English of Chaucer's time. I
> am well aware French was the 'official' language until roughly the
> middle of the fourteenth century (I chose to take a course on Latin to
> initiate a 'contemporary' translation of Boece's 'Consolation of
> Philosophy' as opposed to French, which I will undertake soon enough.')
> As for language, which is the bulk of my study, the courses I have
> taken range from Beowulf and the Gawain-poet (I never did read
> Tolkien's translation, however) through Chaucer (did an interesting
> paper on Chaucer's lost 'The Book of the Lion'), Milton, Swift, and the
> British Romantics. From there I bounced back and forth between
> Shakespeare and T.S. Eliot (Only because of his inspirations from
> Dante). I have begun to branch out in my studies, not for any degree,
> but for my own appreciation. I have obtained The Decameron, as well as
> Virgil's The Aenid, and while I have yet to drudge through Ovid's
> Metamorphoses, I am finding myelf growing increasingly interested in
> the European history surrounding the history of the British Isles that
> I have already studied. The Hundred Years' War I understand well
> enough, and the Black Prince's plunge into madness, but I unfortunately
> have isolated myself in this endeavor.
>
> I am not writing this merely to impress, but to elaborate. I suppose I
> have grown up reading Caxon's Le Morte D'Arthur too many times, and
> spent too much time reading commentaries on Chaucer.
>
> Shaun ^_^
>

Caxon's Le Morte D'Arthur ?
Beowulf  is West Saxon standard not the Northumbrian Ynglis for example, 
then you would have to watch the p's and q's on anything written about the 
Celtic languages, most of it is modern bollocks based on post conquest 
manuscripts.

Jamie 


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