7.02.2004

The sign on A's door

Hwanon ferigeað gē fætte scyldas,
græge syrcan ond grīm-helmas,
here-sceafta hēap?
*

(Translated: Where do you come from, carrying these
decorated shields and shirts of mail,
these cheek-hinged helmets and javelins?)


And then:

IF THOU WISH TO LIVE,
THOU SHALT GOETH AWAY!!!


Ah, yes, it's good to be a kid with a medieval mindset. Or something.

*passage from Seamus Heaney's Beowulf

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