And it's kind of like doing a fringe show at the Edinburgh Festival when you do a play in like a cafe. And of the old English bunch, I like "Big Daddy" and "Giant Haystacks," but when Kendo Nagasaki, when he ran into the ring, he was he
called rudston is because of this Stone the original name was rude Stone rude being uh an Old English word for cross and the reason it's got this um lead
Anything that you do that follows those basic guidelines falls into the whisky category. It comes from the Old English word usquebaugh. Everyone say usquebaugh with me.
What was the best and the worst part of celebrity? Sort of old English guitar music.
And the loan of that manuscript has enabled us to display together for the very first time the four principal manuscripts of Old English poetry, which together contains 75% of all the old English poetry that survives. And it's there, second on the left, next to, on the left, the unique manuscript of "Beowulf" from our own collections.
Probably I called you on your birthday, or I just called you. So I was connecting with some of my old teachers, my old English High School teacher.
And it's never been on exhibition in Britain before, and neither has this manuscript, the book. This is one of the four principal manuscripts of Old English poetry. And we are displaying it open at the poem known as the Dream of the Rood.
But at the front of it, you have this portrait of King Edgar donating the charter-- you can see it in his hand there-- And you can imagine this being read aloud in the Old English vernacular so that everybody in the locality actually, really understood the precise boundary of land that
I'm a campaigner. That's what I learned at Oxford. I didn't learn how to translate streets of Old English , I barely scraped my T1, but I did learn I was a campaigner. And on that, when I left university, I went and worked in various different places, finding my way.
And it's been in Italy for nearly 1,000 years, at least. And the loan of that manuscript has enabled us to display together for the very first time the four principal manuscripts of Old English poetry, which together contains 75% of all the old English poetry that survives.
because you can probably see the top and bottom of this ornate page are little lines of writing in little letters. And this is, in fact, written in Old English , so in the vernacular. And it records an incident whereby this book was ransomed for three bags of gold from heathen invaders, heathen
But at the front of it, you have this portrait of King Edgar donating the charter-- you can see it in his hand there-- It's a description of the parcel of land that's being donated in the charter, and it's in Old English .
You've placed the patio where it wants to go. And basically, the cottage-style planting, which is that real old English , formal style, and looks like it's kind of been scattered there.