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<font size=3>At 3/2/2008 10:08 AM, William Salmon wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">There's a horrifying line in The
Knight's Tale about a pig eating a<br>
child.<br><br>
The sowe freten the child right in the cradel...</blockquote><br>
I assume "freten" (fressen) rather than (?) "eten"
(essen) to make it more horrifying?<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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