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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   On 9/8/2011 12:56 PM, Count Menelvagor wrote:   
      
   > and here's another archaism: "rede" (early in book iii; but he   
   > immediately provides a synonym).   
      
   Re Æthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II (c. 968 – 1016), "Unready"   
   being a mistranslation of Old English unræd ("bad-counsel").   
      
   A better translation would be Redeless ie, without counsel (rede).   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethelred_the_Unready   
      
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