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    Hi!
    I found an Anglosaxon dictionary in one of our many book cases and decided to give the anglosaxon in the Whalestoe letters a try. Most of the words can have different meanings so it's hard to translate, but a possible version of the first fragment (p. 595) is:
    The fear of God is great, for he changes the land of the sea.
    Does this sound familiar to anyone? I don't think P or MZD just made it up themselves...

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    See here for instance.

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    Yes, I found that shortly afterwards. Just didn't want to use the search function, this way I felt like I made an original contribution for a while... [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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    on the note of the wholesale letters....seeing as how they switch from one aspect to another...who is to say that they werent another figment of johnnys imagination...

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