Does he mean ”they offer nine concrete cut-off heads without the bodies”? Or is ”heads” a quantity word for living things in 11th century Latin? Is Adam just saying "they offer nine of every living male thing"? 2/2
Some things are counted with quantity words, for instance ”one pair of trousers”. Chinese is extremely rich in quantity words, and learning which one goes with each noun is a major hurdle for learning the language.
Here’s a question for everyone who reads #Medieval#Latin professionally.
Adam of Bremen writes, ”The sacrifice is of this nature: of every living thing that is male, they offer nine heads, with the blood of which it is customary to placate gods of this sort.” 1/2
4 Jan 1569: Roger Ascham scholar, #Greek & #Latin tutor to Elizabeth I when she was a princess is buried at St. Sepulchre Without Newgate #London#otd (BM)
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23 Dec 1568: Roger Ascham scholar, #Greek & #Latin tutor to Elizabeth I when she was a princess takes mortally ill #otd having just completed a Latin poem of thanksgiving to his former student for her decade of rule, intended as a New Year 1569 gift (BM)
Charlie Feldman (@ParlCharlie): "On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - December 8, 1964: The Deputy Speaker kindly suggests that members limit their use of Greek or Latin." https://nitter.net/ParlCharlie/status/1733096838096687391#m
Nicolas Trigault, 1577-1628, of Douai, a #Jesuit & missionary in #China by Peter Paul Rubens (Met Museum) He translated Matteo Ricci's 'China Journal' into #Latin & produced one of the first systems of Chinese Romanisation
Manish Goregaokar & Ben Joeng are acting out a scenario of a #Unicode proposal user community interview for #English, were #Latin not the basis for #ASCII. Actually justifying C vs G, explaining capital letters, etc is a fun and funny thought experiment for an Anglophone audience. #MultilingualDH
A year ago I started a little personal #Fedi project to every week share #newRelease music + a variety of other tracks from all sorts of eras & genres too.
I called it #BearTracks for my own humour & just to sort of see what I was doing.
It's over 500 tracks now. Lots of good music, quite a bit you might not have heard.
From Chile to Honduras, Latin American governments are recalling ambassadors, severing diplomatic relations, and openly condemning Israel — a country with a history of propping up #dictatorships across the region — for its crimes against humanity in #Gaza.
The State Department said the Kremlin worked with media companies "to undermine support for Ukraine" in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, and other Latin American countries.
3 Nov 1621: The will of George Ruggle #Latin playwright is proved #otd He d. 6 Sept. His 5 hour Latin play Ignoramus was performed at #Cambridge and then #Royston for James VI & I, who wanted a repeat performance.
The king loved it because it slagged off lawyers (eebo)
Seriously. Boo, boare. First conjugation verb. It's nice that ghosts try to politely explain, what they are just doing. Using ancient and dead language, quite fitting if you ask me.
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US: Moscow funds disinformation campaigns across Latin America (kyivindependent.com)
The State Department said the Kremlin worked with media companies "to undermine support for Ukraine" in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, and other Latin American countries.