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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2012, 05:55 PM Jul 2012

Anglo-Saxons fæder Obama

Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2012, 07:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Ðá wæs on burgum Barack Obama Scyldinga

léof léodcyning longe þráge

ge folcum gefraége -- fæder ellor hwearf
aldor of earde -- oþ þæt him eft onwóc

héold þenden lifde

gamol ond gúðréouw

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Anglo-Saxons fæder Obama (Original Post) ashling Jul 2012 OP

:) ashling Jul 2012 #1

what language is that? Enrique Jul 2012 #2

I'm guessing Saxon? Chan790 Jul 2012 #3

It's Old English. It's an excerpt from Beowulf. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2012 #4

Mitt Grendel? ashling Jul 2012 #5

Can you repost as a code snippet ? eppur_se_muova Jul 2012 #6

Beats the hell out of me ashling Jul 2012 #7

ashling

(25,771 posts)

1. :)

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 07:10 PM

Jul 2012

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

2. what language is that?

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 07:38 PM

Jul 2012

it looks a little like Meximormon.

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

3. I'm guessing Saxon?

Reply to Enrique (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 07:57 PM

Jul 2012

I ran it through Google Translate for both Irish Gaelic and Welsh and in both cases it hit some cognate words but not most of the text so it's a related language but probably not a modern language of the British Isles.