Uzytkownik "Isabelle Cecchini" <isabelle.cecchini@wanadoo.fr> napisal w
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> [...]
> > I guess why a West saxon would write about events in Denmark and S
> > Sweden is the cause for some speculation.
>
> It is indeed. I've found http://www.heorot.dk/beowulf-vorwort.html by
> Benjamin Slade to be very interesting and enlightening about the
> different theories about dating and possible authorship. .
>
> > Does anyone know of an Old English dictionary/translation source
> > online? I have found one but it cost$.
>
> http://www.heorot.dk/glossary.html for an impressive Old English
> Glossary for Beowulf.
>
> > Also, on pronunciation of <g> in OE: at the beginning of a word its
> > pronounced 'ye'
>
> Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It depends on what kind of
> sound follows.
>
> > e.g., geAEfned (performed) is spoken yeAEfned.
>
> Peter S. Baker has put on line "An on-line analogue" of his Introduction
> to Old English (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). Here is the link to the
> chapter on pronunciation:
> http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/rawl/IOE/pronunciation.html
>
>
> > But when at the end of a word e..g., sweg (music) I find myself
> > pronouncing it 'swesh' like the modern German suffix <ig>. {What
> > does that mean anyway.?} The rule would imply it is 'swee'. Or is it
> > pronounced 'swege'?
>
> I'd say something like 'swey'.
>
> --
> Isabelle Cecchini
>
As in this ancient verse:
Gest weont to dans se nicht aweg
Wip senoritas hwo can sweg
Uncle Davey
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