'Parfay,' quaþ he, 'þer is fair game. Þider ichil, bi Godes name! Ich was ywon swiche werk to se.'
(ll.314-6, Sir Orfeo, from "A Book of Middle English", Burrow and Turville-Petre, which I was looking at earlier after catching the end of Ian McKellen reading a translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Radio 4)
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Date: 2006-12-21 05:03 pm (UTC)Þider ichil, bi Godes name!
Ich was ywon swiche werk to se.'
(ll.314-6, Sir Orfeo, from "A Book of Middle English", Burrow and Turville-Petre, which I was looking at earlier after catching the end of Ian McKellen reading a translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Radio 4)