From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðhymbra land, 7 þæt folc earmlic   
   bregdon,   
   þæt wæron ormete þodenas 7 ligrescas, 7 fyrenne dracan wæron gesewene on   
   þam lifte fleogende.   
   Þam tacnum sona fyligde mycel hunger,   
   7 litel æfter þam, þæs ilcan geares on .vi. Idus Ianuarii,   
   earmlice hæþenra manna hergunc adilegode Godes cyrican in Lindisfarnaee   
   þurh hreaflac 7 mansliht.   
      
   ("In this year fierce, foreboding omens came over the land of the   
   Northumbrians, and the wretched people shook;   
   there were excessive whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen   
   flying in the sky.   
   These signs were followed by great famine,   
   and a little after those, that same year on 6th ides of January,   
   the ravaging of wretched heathen men destroyed God's church at   
   Lindisfarne [by plunder and slaughter].")   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne   
      
   Crystal reminds us that these Danish terrorists later settled down in   
   large areas of northern and eastern England (the Danelaw), and that   
   their language eventually had a profound influence on Anglo-Saxon and   
   thus on modern English, contributing many basic lexical items and even   
   some grammatical morphology. A recent book even claimed that English   
   should be reclassified as North Germanic:   
      
   https://www.academia.edu/10360982/English_The_Language_of_the_Vikings   
      
   though very few specialists agreed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)