From: Berglaug Ásmundardóttir
Message: 4131
Date: 2004-02-06
----- Original Message -----From: Gerald MchargSent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:12 PMSubject: [norse_course] Help! from JedDear AllI am preparing materials for a course I hope to run on local/regional history and the development of the English Language over the last 1500 years. As part of this course I want to show how the English vocabulary has been affected by Latin, Greek and Old Norse to such an extent that if the words derived from these languages were suddenly to disappear from our lexicon, we would find it impossible to speak or write in modern English.For people who have no knowledge of any language other than English, I need a text common to all lanuages mentioned above to show how much of the vocabulary of each has been incorporated one over the centuries, one way or another, into English. I think the most familiar text will be the Lord's prayer - 'Our father which art in heaven'......etc. I have copies of these in Old English, Latin and Greek but not in Old Norse. Could any of our Scandinavian colleagues oblige by sending this text through the e-mail?I would be very grateful.CheersJed
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