Thursday, June 09, 2016

Riddle me …

… Review: Saint Aldhelm's Riddles, edited by A.M. Juster - Chicago Tribune. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Aldhelm was a prominent churchman in Anglo-Saxon England. Born between 635 and 645, he died in 709. Although Latin was not his native tongue, he wrote poetry in that language, including a sequence of 100 riddles called Aenigmata, which Juster has translated (in verse).
Was Latin anybody's native tongue in the Seventh Century?
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2 comments:

  1. Jeff Mauvais11:29 PM

    Latin was the official language of the Byzantine Empire until 620. So, yes.

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  2. Frank Wilson9:59 AM

    That's interesting. And I would not have thought that.

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