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Nov. 13th, 2008 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twincityhacker1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
From Anglo-Saxon Magic by Dr. G. Storms. "Dr. G. Storms" is what's on the title-page!
*Jacob Grimm, in this instance.
**Johannes Hoops. Studied similar things as Grimm, only way less famous.
Technically, The Dragon's Tongue by Gerald Morgan was a little closer but were of statistics for the amount of money fronted by patrons of the early Welsh press.
Right. Back to drawing for an art project for "Girls Like Us." It was fine untill I realized that I'd have to draw the title page for the comic, and I don't know what half the figures look like. *facepalm*
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
From Anglo-Saxon Magic by Dr. G. Storms. "Dr. G. Storms" is what's on the title-page!
There is nothing in the whole passage that looks like Christian influence, it is absolutely pagan. Grimm* thought it was Germanic, but it occurs almost word for word in the Latin Herbaium Apulei, of which the Anglo-Saxon text is a free version. The title of the work should have warned Grim that the chances were great this this particular passage was a borrowing, but otherwise his mistake is natural. If we did not posses the Latin original it might be regarded as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon herb-gathering, for the above way of gathering medicinal herbs,with all the accompanying prescriptions and prohibitions, had also to be observed by the Anglo-Saxons. Hoops** was of opinion that if a herb was imported into Northern Europe by the Romans the superstition attached to it was also imported.
*Jacob Grimm, in this instance.
**Johannes Hoops. Studied similar things as Grimm, only way less famous.
Technically, The Dragon's Tongue by Gerald Morgan was a little closer but were of statistics for the amount of money fronted by patrons of the early Welsh press.
Right. Back to drawing for an art project for "Girls Like Us." It was fine untill I realized that I'd have to draw the title page for the comic, and I don't know what half the figures look like. *facepalm*
