Something for you, Niamh

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you asked what Anglo-Saxon sounded like? Anglo-Saxon Aloud by Michael C. Drout. Is good stuff. I recommend my current favourite, The Dream of the Rood, or Satan's complaints about Hell from Genesis B. Beowulf Aloud isn't available for free, sadly :(

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"Anglosaxophony" heeee! Sounds like a slightly disreputable pastime indulged in late at night by small groups of furtive-looking people :P

Tolkien was at Oxford :D I've heard him reading LOTR but not the poetry - must see if we have that somewhere.

The reason I thought it sounded a bit like Elvish was from the kind of sounds. Um. I'm no linguist, so I don't know the correct terms, but I'm thinking of the part of it that sounds a bit like leaves being shuffled by the wind in a forest.

About the Dutch thing, I meant to say the other day about the word you were asking about that seemed to have contradictory meanings - I think you wrote it as (ge) gan? Well that sounds a lot like "gaan", the Dutch for "to go". Gegaan is the past participle ("went" in English, I spose). I don't think it's often used as "to come" though, unless you partner it with something else like "langs", as in "langs gaan" (I think that's right), which means to go along (but that's kind of a clumsy and inaccurate way of using it to mean "come").

I really enjoy the cross-pollination between Dutch and English :D