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highlyeccentric) wrote2008-03-08 02:18 pm
highlyeccentric) wrote2008-03-08 02:18 pm
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*dies of historical joy*
Around 3000 Anglo-Saxon skeletons to be reburied. This story has been doing the blog rounds, but I picked it up from Brandon today, where he notes that Anglo-Saxon will be (has been?) used during the reinterrment ceremony, as is appropriate. The BBC have a sound byte of the Lord's Prayer in Anglo Saxon, but i can't get it to play.
Still. Isn't that the coolest?
ed: and This Post at Scribal Terorr gives much greater detail. Apparently the service will be based on an Anglican prayer book from the 1500s- any attempt at authentic Anglo-Saxon liturgy being impossible due to that pesky thing called the Reformation; the church, and skeletons, are in Anglican hands, so a Latin liturgy is out of the question. Also, as either Awesome or the SupervisorMan were telling me the other day, we have virtually no idea what an Anglo-Saxon liturgy looked like ANYWAY.
Still. Isn't that the coolest?
ed: and This Post at Scribal Terorr gives much greater detail. Apparently the service will be based on an Anglican prayer book from the 1500s- any attempt at authentic Anglo-Saxon liturgy being impossible due to that pesky thing called the Reformation; the church, and skeletons, are in Anglican hands, so a Latin liturgy is out of the question. Also, as either Awesome or the SupervisorMan were telling me the other day, we have virtually no idea what an Anglo-Saxon liturgy looked like ANYWAY.