Which leads to a serious question. Is there any record of when the
English pub came to be? As opposed to stopping at a farmhouse by the
road and asking for hospitality and a pint. It would be amusing to
think they predate the conquest.
Mark
At 01:46 PM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
>I don't know "Blickling", his work, etc. Nor Google I not.
>I just like the sound of "Blickling"!
>Back in seasons of Beowulf, there must have been "Blickings", as well.
>When together in Tavern or Inn, often, by their sounds, they were known,
>I would bet, as a "Blickering Lot", indeed more well known for "blickering"
>than not. Lucky to have been spared by Grendel and such!
>
>Adios,
>
>Stephen V
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>From: Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: yogh alliteration in BEOWULF
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 8:05 AM
>
><snip>
>KIERNAN DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE FACT THAT THE SCRIBE
>DID NOT UNDERSTAND ARCHAIC BITS OF WHAT HE COPIED.
><snip>
>
>Actually two scribes.
>
>Kiernan, I think, wants to see Beowulf as part of the Blickling Codex.
>Beowulf's second scribe, who continued the transcription (from a bit
>beyond the halfway point) may have belonged to the Blickling scriptorium.
>There are also parallels between the description of Grendel's lair in
>Beowulf and a description of Hell in one of the Blickling Homilies. (The
>likely source is common. But was this a _direct and independent_ source for
>each? Did Beowulf influence the Homily? Did the Homily influence Beowulf? Or
>what?)
>
>Kiernan places much less weight on the linguistic discrepancies within the
>text, arguing (to put it very crudely) that the *author* (hah!) is both
>quite late and a sort of OE Ossian or Rowley, consciously achaicising during
>the composition.
>
>CW
>_______________________________________________
>
>Dozens have gone missing, the decision taken is Elsewhere.
>but yes, yes we remain as poetry, pure immateriality.
>in the name of the 'current state of things' they murmur to us:
>"we went for a stroll, now it's a question of marching!" But this
>stroll of ours has brought us a long way off, and now
>the horizon is behind us.
>
>(from *Materiali*, Indiani Metropolitani 1977)
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