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[highlyeccentric]

I linked yesterday to the weirdest response to my blog, ever. I emailed the woman back, and today she sent me the list of questions for 'dating advice from medievalists'. The final question is 'what is a good quote from medieval literature to use in flirting?'

What do we reckon? Best medieval flirtation quote? I mean, personally, I discovered quite by accident that being able to quote Genesis B makes me powerfully attractive, but I suspect that's a particular quirk of the medievalist I was talking to.

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[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

"...being able to quote Genesis B makes me powerfully attractive..."

SO HOT

[rxgra.livejournal.com]

Please read this brief comic (http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/pix/xkcd.gif)! You will understand the relevance.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Saw it when BBolt first posted it. I am le fanne of les Nobody Wins.

[(Anonymous)]

I've found that my fiancee mostly likes anytime I speak (i.e. read) medieval languages--Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, and a little bit of Latin. I think she likes the exotic nature of it to modern ears, but I think she also likes the sound of the poetic in it.

Still, whenever I think of flirtation and such in medieval texts, I'm always reminded of the line in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale": "'Teehee!' quod she, and clapte the windowe to" (554). I'm not sure if it's a particularly good line to use... but the teehee is amusing.

B. Hawk

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

well, rolled 'r's are exceedingly sexy... i'm looking forward to the Goblin picking up a nice Old Norse reading voice this year :)

That *is* a delightful line. I should get around to reading the Tales one day...

[ahsavka.livejournal.com]

Oh, you medievalists. Here I am, all dressed up ready with Catullus and nowhere to go.

(and he's got the best insults, too! what a guy.)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

yeah, i've head about him... i think B's life was plagued by having to translate him last year...

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Surely something from the Wife of Bath...

""Tell me also, to what purpose or end
The genitals were made, that I defend,
And for what benefit was man first wrought?"

Saucy!!!

[blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com]

Hahaaaa, I just thought about actually walking up to someone in a bar and saying that, and I'm really amused.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

try it, try it!