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   From: miniter@attglobalZZ.net   
      
   Derek Broughton wrote:   
      
   > Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
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   >>In message    
   >>Steve Hayes  spoke these staves:   
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   >>In connection to that, it made me wonder to find no Shakespeare or   
   >>Chaucer on the list.   
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   > I imagine that depends heavily on the "translation".  I wonder if Chaucer in   
   > its original might be as intelligible to a Dane as to the English.  Every   
   > English reader probably _should_ try to read some Chaucer, but not in the   
   > original.   
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   Chaucer is Middle English and much closer to Modern English.  But Beowulf, now,   
   that is Old English (at best) and would probably be much more accessible in   
   Danish.  Of course, the character set takes a little practice.   
      
      
   Francis A. Miniter   
      
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