To: csvset
Very interesting find. Sure wish they would have said what the verse was under the picture of the
This gold strip with a Biblical inscription is one of 1,500 items in the hoard
And given the negative connotation the word hoard has to some, wonder why the author or whom ever decided to use this word to describe this find.
To: Just mythoughts
The author used the word
hoard because that is the word! Treasure hoard! A hoard of treasure!
Hoard is also directly derived from Anglo-Saxon. You just couldn't get a better fitting word for this astonishing find than hoard.
14 posted on
09/24/2009 4:43:47 AM PDT by
agere_contra
(NO COUNTRY SHOULD BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE TYRANNY OF ITS OWN PEOPLE /Obama)
To: Just mythoughts
This is the time between a legendary myth, King Arthur, and the legendary King Alfred the Great. It is the time of the great (and almost only) historian of that time,
Bede of Northumbria. This will be fascinating to follow as it opens more study of this time. On a bicycle trip to England in the late 90s it became impressed upon me on how dense history clings to every inch of England. I stood at Stonehenge at dawn and thought of all of those who have stood there over the past millenniaS!
17 posted on
09/24/2009 4:59:05 AM PDT by
SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: Just mythoughts; agere_contra
And given the negative connotation the word hoard has to some, wonder why the author or whom ever decided to use this word to describe this find.
I guess you're worried about sentences such as: "She hoard until the age of 30, after which she retired and opened her own betrothal."
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