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They have a few of his poems in the anthology - I checked. Tom Send a noteboard - 20/02/2013 01:22:15 AM
The first volume of the anthology is much more extensively Medieval than I remembered it being. However, the anthology surprised me in another way this time. It had Bernart de Ventadorn's Can vei lauzeta mover, "When I see the lark move," which is an Occitan poem by a Provençal troubadour.

I started studying Old French by way of Old Occitan, which is (and I cannot emphasize the next word enough) VERY similar to Old French. The noun declensions, the vowel changes - everything is extremely close. However, Occitan is just that little bit closer to Spanish than Old French is.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Any recommendations for reading Old French? Tom - 19/02/2013 01:17:09 AM 1059 Views
Not too many outside the ones you've already said Larry - 19/02/2013 02:20:23 AM 598 Views
Bertrand keeps cropping up Tom - 19/02/2013 03:10:15 PM 632 Views
I can't find Bertrand in a good edition. Tom - 23/02/2013 02:42:56 AM 582 Views
Hmmm... DomA - 19/02/2013 05:02:50 AM 555 Views
The Larousse Old French Dictionary is on order, and I own Le Robert. Tom - 19/02/2013 03:09:25 PM 564 Views
Re: The Larousse Old French Dictionary is on order, and I own Le Robert. DomA - 19/02/2013 03:56:54 PM 795 Views
Good suggestion Tom - 19/02/2013 07:05:58 PM 655 Views
Re: Good suggestion DomA - 20/02/2013 12:01:00 AM 584 Views
I figured it was a cool sounding purchase either way. Tom - 20/02/2013 01:11:06 AM 632 Views
Re: I figured it was a cool sounding purchase either way. DomA - 20/02/2013 04:47:12 AM 619 Views
Actually, it's 195 pages Tom - 20/02/2013 06:16:56 AM 535 Views
And please let me know if you ever hear of that Rabelais original being printed! *NM* Tom - 20/02/2013 05:00:40 PM 256 Views
Re: And please let me know if you ever hear of that Rabelais original being printed! DomA - 20/02/2013 05:21:11 PM 628 Views
The Roman de la Rose doesn't have the full text. Tom - 23/02/2013 02:40:23 AM 488 Views
Oh, and I did finally get the Zorzi history of Venice Tom - 20/02/2013 01:12:22 AM 496 Views
Is de Machaut Old French or Middle? Ghavrel - 19/02/2013 09:02:15 AM 524 Views
Probably Middle Tom - 19/02/2013 03:12:11 PM 580 Views
A bit of both DomA - 19/02/2013 03:15:32 PM 638 Views
They have a few of his poems in the anthology - I checked. Tom - 20/02/2013 01:22:15 AM 819 Views
that's awesome. i love old dead languages... i have no suggestions that aren't old irish, though. *NM* temeraire - 20/02/2013 01:38:50 AM 258 Views
Apparently the word "lay" meaning "story" comes from Irish "laid", meaning "song". *NM* Tom - 20/02/2013 07:54:47 PM 255 Views
One of our friends works with Old French and Occitan and Oxford Uni at the moment. Rebekah - 20/02/2013 04:14:36 PM 610 Views
Sure, why not? Tom - 20/02/2013 04:59:01 PM 614 Views
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