From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <44671b480909130127n571a0882sf1b02aef95523e33@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:25:43 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jason Catena To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] Chaucer on 9fans Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6e839e1e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Eris discordantly quoted, from a Pink Floyd song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Several_species), "an account of the famous defeat of Mary Queen of Scots at the battle of Langside that took place in the 16th Century." Here's a translation and analysis of the full text, written in a Scottish dialect on the other side of the great vowel shift from Chaucer's middle English. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=116217231&blogId=178646624 (Sorry for contributing to off-topic-ness.) Jason Catena