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To: the long march

Not Old English. Even Beowulf is Middle English. KJV is Elizabethan English ——vastly different beasts

I thought Beowulf was Old English and Canterbury Tales was Middle English?

114 posted on 10/14/2009 1:51:02 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Bere'shit bara' 'Eloqim 'et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz.)

To: Zionist Conspirator

I thought Beowulf was Old English and Canterbury Tales was Middle English?

Beowulf is mostly West Saxon with a little bit of Anglian. That's Old English.

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,

120 posted on 10/14/2009 1:59:02 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)

To: Zionist Conspirator

My bad you are correct. but the KJV is Elizabethan

144 posted on 10/14/2009 2:48:15 PM PDT by the long march

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