> Didn't that |g| to |y| consonant shift occur much earlier than the
> Christian faith was established in England, but....?
Perhaps Christopher could address that point, Roger.
> More damned paradoxies, much prefer real ones!
Well, we could have a layered text, which during the oral transmission
period introduced later (Christian) elements while retaining earlier
linguistic etc. elements.
Or the Christian elements could have been added at the point when the poem
is first written down.
This is Candice's territory, so she'd give a better answer than me.
Robin
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