LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.30 (11) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: john feather <johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Language varieties

In reply to something I wrote Luc said:

>Why should a London professor study Old Flemish in order to understand Old
English  better?
Is there not a hesitation to concider the oldest known West-Flemish sentence
"Hebban olla vogalas nestas bigunnan..." to be also Old English ? So...<

I don't really understand the relevance of this. I thought that the claim to
fame of this line was that it is distinctively in West Flemish, as shown by
the form "olla", and unique for the 11th century. It was written on the back
of an OE manuscript and found (obviously by chance) in the Bodleian Library
in Oxford in 1931.

I have it in the form "Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan hinase hi(c)
(e)nda thu.. [wat umbidan we nu]."
I assume that the sense has been completed on the basis of the parallel
Latin version. What would the closest OE dialect be? It's not West Saxon.

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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