>actually at bookshop >all the nice blak penguins lined

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>>9916997
imagine being this much of a pseud

>>9916986
Heaney's "So:" is perfect, wouldn't you say?

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>>9917214
>not using "Lo!"

If you accept "hark" or "listen" then "attend" is allowable, since in this sense it is a synonym.

>>9916986
personally i like the "Hi!" translation, really captures language of a time lost imo

>>9917231
hark is acceptable because it keeps the punctuated and aggressive monosyllabic sound of hwaet. Listen is shit because it is multisyllabic and lacks a hard consonant.
Attend sounds like a whiny faggot frenchman.

How long would it take a native English speaker with a year of Hochdeutsch to be able to read Anglo-Saxon? Note that I currently can only read a bit of German.

Should I take the opportunity to read Middle English through a course on Chaucer?

>>9917265
two days if your intelligent enough

>>9917268
A real answer, please.

>>9917282
three days for you

>>9917265
>Should I take the opportunity to read Middle English through a course on Chaucer?
No.
You should never read anything in middle english without first taking a course on it since you obviously wouldn't be authorised to do so.
Dude just get the riverside chaucer used, it's great and makes reading chaucer rewarding but not frustrating.

>>9917385
The course is a course on Middle English and Chaucer. The professor is a Medievalist who is allegedly fluent, though I've never heard him speak it.
It's taught assuming total ignorance (which I am not, and am also not monolingual).

>>9917398
I'm also expecting it to be difficult, because I've taken a first-year course with him on material that he does not know extremely well, and he was brutal. I can't imagine what he'll expect here. Last year, he gave a 40 minute lecture on the implications of an allegory comparing the body to a wine barrel for a symposium on Luther.